I'd just like to mention that the time between the internet and the web was a few decades for some people and was quite different than "the Internet" today. Yo

I'd just like to mention that the time between the internet and the web was a few decades for some people and was quite different than "the Internet" today. You had a Terminal, then maybe a workstation on your desk and lastly a PC and modem at home.. News groups and irc, ftp and muds over telnet, then eventually gopher.. If you had no academic affiliations you might use independent BBSes or communicate over an alliance of them that exchanged mail. Many things could be downloaded eventually, but large things like compilers and OSes and their updates might come on tape.. Even once the web was running, it was not evenly distributed even in corporations and we would fax faq contents to common OS problems to workers who had large disconnected networks. These still exist for security reasons today, but those workers at least have web access when they leave their sites.