[GreenKeys] Incredible . . .

[Craig Sawyers]

> Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, not the Internet.  The
> Internet was
> started as ARPANET in the 70's.
>
> Mike

I stand quite rightly corrected - the Internet indeed started out as ARPANET
(where the ARPA part is the Advanced Research Projects Agency  - formed at
the initiative of Eisenhower to the launch of Sputnik in 1958).

If fact I used the sort of facilities available through this (e-mail and
data searching using a system called WAIS - the Wide Area Information
System) using a UK service called British Telecom Gold in 1986, connecting
through an acoustic modem at 300 baud.  It was that era of tiny data rates
and almost zero storage that led to the mail acronyms like AFAIK (as far as
I know) and IMHO (in my humble opinion).  There are lieterally hundreds of
these MLA's (multi-letter acronyms).  My all time favourite has to be
BOHICA.

Craig