22 Sep
1995
22 Sep
'95
2:56 p.m.
The Internet is no longer an experiment.
Well, yes and no. I take very well your point that it's a very large public utility (in the sense of something that people depend on), but at the same time we (i.e. humans) haven't ever built a system like this before, so it's inevitably "an experiment".
And remember... ...the earth is just an experiment run by mice, the most intelligent creature on the earth. Dave ps. Sorry. Had to do it for the Douglas Adams fans... -- Dave Siegel President, RTD Systems & Networking, Inc. (520)318-0696 Systems Consultant -- Unix, LANs, WANs, Cisco dsiegel@rtd.com User Tracking & Acctg -- "Written by an ISP, http://www.rtd.com/ for an ISP."