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I disagree. BSD UNIX, created way back in 1977, was already dominant in Internet networking in those early web days circa 1991, hosting the majority of univers
by jnbiche 10y ago
I disagree. BSD UNIX, created way back in 1977, was already dominant in Internet networking in those early web days circa 1991, hosting the majority of university web content in the early days of the web (early 1990s). And back then, university-hosted content was basically all the web.
Sure, strictly speaking, the web was born on NeXTStep, but it definitely was suckled on BSD UNIX, and to a lesser extent System V UNIX, some of the others you mention[1], and VMS (what I used to host web content in the early early days).
1. with the exception of MS-DOS/Windows, which didn't even have native TCP/IP support in those days.
- pjmlp 10y agoMaybe in US, not in many European countries. In Portugal, most universities were using Aix and DG/UX, no BSD in sight back then. I was there. Around 1995 they started to slowly move to GNU/Linux, but many of those Aix, DG/UX servers only got replaced by GNU/Linux when the hardware died for whatever reason. There were quite a few TCP/IP stacks for MS-DOS/Windows available, that many of us just bought.