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Re: Framing
by Dave Siegel
Ah, the memories of "online content" in 1993. Most of the online content available was still in gopher and various anonymous ftp sites (remember ftp.wustl.edu?), as Mosaic was still catching on. As I remember the definition of the Internet, it comes from internet. An internet is an interconnection of two disparate networks in such a way that they behave as one. The Internet is the big one, the ultimate interconnection of all networks. It is the Internet Protocol that makes the interconnection function in a useful way, yes, but that is not what defines it. Back in 1993 when asked what I did for a living I told people I was in networking. Enough people mistaked what I meant as people networking not computer networking, so I got in the habit of adding computer as a standard so there was no confusion. Back then, the business of helping computers find one another and helping people find one another were entirely seperate things. It is with some irony that now in 2006 we find ourselves in a place where this massive network of computers helps people find one another. Doesn't matter whether it's LinkedIn, MySpace, or just a google search, the computer network is the ultimate human network. I guess I agree with Susan, even though I work for a carrier. :-)
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