Re: Wow...

Posted by Micah [indyfan.com] on Wednesday, December 12, 2001 at 3:58pm :

In Reply to: Wow... posted by Brett Maverick Lambert from a0g4229xy26rg.ab.hsia.telus.net (142.179.246.99) on Wednesday, December 12, 2001 at 3:15pm :

: I suppose that guy must have been a military man then. Weren't the only people who had access to the net in those days the military?

From his address RAND-UNIX, I assume he worked for the RAND Corporation. According to Bruce Sterling (see link), it was "America's foremost Cold War think-tank" Although I think by 1981 many universities were also connected. Email had been around for a while, and the USENET newsgroups had just begun.

--Micah

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