By the way, not all in the Duke piece is to be taken as gospel. I think the 1983 "get a file from one computer to another across the country" may actually have been UUCP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP ). And Arpanet was already on, with FTP, etc. although at relatively few sites.
(A couple of years later, getting a complete Emacs tarball from prep.ai.mit.edu was still a sporting proposition - watching hash characters march across the terminal on an ftp without auto-resume - actually, no resume at all, just retry ...)
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 15.3 ms ] threadBy the way, not all in the Duke piece is to be taken as gospel. I think the 1983 "get a file from one computer to another across the country" may actually have been UUCP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP ). And Arpanet was already on, with FTP, etc. although at relatively few sites.
(A couple of years later, getting a complete Emacs tarball from prep.ai.mit.edu was still a sporting proposition - watching hash characters march across the terminal on an ftp without auto-resume - actually, no resume at all, just retry ...)