[Elecraft] Computers in the Stone Age

[Fred Townsend]

Ted I would argue e-mail and the Internet still are and always have been separate systems. One is a network and the other an application. It is well known that e-mail systems were around a long time before the Internet became common. There was a system called Fidonet that used all kinds of networks including satellite and packet radio as well as dial up for linking.

I think most will agree that UNIX with native networking and e-mail apps really enabled the Internet and e-mail as we know it today. Add a browser app and you had the web.

73, Fred, AE6QL


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>The most significant development, which some folks today don't remember or
>never knew, is that e-mail and the Internet began as separate systems.
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>Ted, KN1CBR
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