Well, waaaaaay back when I started university, I discovered the bbs's. If I didn't have access to university computers, which had their own LAN network, I would have remained oblivious to the usenet. It wasn't until the mid-to-late nineties when IP businesses started up that all these LANs got connected together on the World Wide Web and to people with home pcs, and more people started posting on message boards like Habitable Zone. Maybe that's the perspective of an outsider. So what.
What I find interesting is that there is still interest in internet architectures that are NOT server-based. I think one of them is called a "Grid". Individual computers are connected together, and the information is shared in P2P fashion. The problem is making the available information persistent, and eliminating long-distance charges.
That's the way I see it.
Geek Speak » in reply to And I object to what you say about servers
Unless you live for bbs systems.
The whole thread (25 posts)
- A question about the sustainability of the Internet
- programming cost?
- getting into the metaphysical
- Is it virtual or is it Memorex?
- P.S. I am a figment of your imagination.
- re: Is it virtual or is it Memorex?
- Is it virtual or is it Memorex?
- getting into the metaphysical
- Who knows?
- I suppose it started with local networks
- programming cost?