Times are bad, children no longer obey their parents and everyone's got a blog. In honour of "This is NOT the 20th Birthday of the Internet Day" 2009 : comments.
While the ARPAnet wasn't a network of networks in '69, by the late '70s it was connected into a hodgepodge of other networks.
It was fairly easy to get an account on the ARPAnet if you were a computer person well before the days of the Internet. So opened up? That more had to do with the technology becoming less techie and cheaper. Nothing at all to do with the technical transition to TCP/IP.
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It was fairly easy to get an account on the ARPAnet if you were a computer person well before the days of the Internet. So opened up? That more had to do with the technology becoming less techie and cheaper. Nothing at all to do with the technical transition to TCP/IP.