OT - Internet [Was: Re: Psssst - Hey mister - wanna buy a Lexus?]

mcbrue wrote:
> Hey Sir John, that Great Renaming wasn't when you invented the
> internet, was it? Of course you had to change it to Arpanet so Al
> could re-invent it as the internet ...
> 
> When did the commercial applications start?

No, ARPANET predated the Great Renaming by about 18 years.  The Internet 
opened to commercial interests in 1988.  On Usenet, commercial 
applications began when Canter and Siegel invented spam in 1994.  Of 
course, by that time, the WWW had been around for three years or so, 
having gotten underway arguably in 1991, if memory serves.

Remember that the Internet is not the Web is not Usenet.
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sjs