But, if you never saw anything better, you might think AOL is the cat's meow. I really liked it when I first got on. It was quite an improvement over Genie or Compuserve or the old dial up BBS's (I ran one of those in the early 80s).
That was a good article, and there were a lot of good comments after it regarding patents. It would be hard to patent the web, all you could do is patent the html format instructions, etc. It seems someone could come up with an alternative format, just like there are many programming language alternates.
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I actually used Arpanet back 1982 while a grad student working on a low range radar project in collaboration with Sandia Labs. Back in the days of acoustic modems, punch cards, and mini computers the size of refrigerators.
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