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From: "Dave Crocker" <dhc2@dcrocker.net>
You mean when you sat at a unix shell using a dumb terminal on a machine attached to the internet in, say, 1986 you didn't think you were "on the internet"?
An question with more nuance than most folk tend to realize:
To Be "On" the Internet
March, 1995 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1775
Oh, *sure* Dave; write your own RFC just so you can refer to it in an argument, 19 years later... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274