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Frankly, if the internet had been driven by the desire to make profit in the early days, we wouldn't have TCP/IP, the web, email or any other open protocol for
by fhd2 13y ago
Frankly, if the internet had been driven by the desire to make profit in the early days, we wouldn't have TCP/IP, the web, email or any other open protocol for that matter.
- wmf 13y agoI don't know why fhd2 was downvoted. Hippies created BSD and TCP/IP; suits created Compuserve and X.whatever.
- minor_nitwit 13y agoYes, but it wasn't until the internet was opened up for commerce that it became widely adopted.
- vacri 13y agoYes, but without the open nature of network protocols, it would not have been able to have become widely adopted.