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And the internet was born!

• NeedMoreTea 8y ago
  No, not at all. There was a lot more to the internet than just the web which was a later arrival to the net. The internet had been around for years. TCP/IP had been standardised for a decade or so. http was just one of many protocols, and should never have ended up being used for everything, it's not suited. There was plenty of reason to be online years before Mosaic too. They just didn't yet have pretty pictures, ads and tracking built in to every request. :p
  • kevin_thibedeau 8y ago
    whoosh.
  • scholia 8y ago
    True, but the browser brought a GUI and ease of use. More people could use a browser to run ftp than could -- or at least, would -- run ftp.