Feel free to insert "as we know it", because I do not believe that the pre-1980s internet is recognizably the same thing. I will not strongly argue the point si

Feel free to insert "as we know it", because I do not believe that the pre-1980s internet is recognizably the same thing. I will not strongly argue the point since I wasn't there. But to clarify on the salient part, I was trying to say that UNIX diverged (successfully) from what came before it, and the CRLF behaviour was from the teletype era that the early internet started in. My point about UNIX being a building block of the (modern) internet was more about pointing out that if UNIX could diverge from that and be a key component of the internet, it's absurd to think that Windows could not. I can definitely understand how you got where you did from what I said, though.