legacy /8

Sat Apr 3 08:03:41 UTC 2010

Owen DeLong wrote:
> It was thought that we would not have nearly so many people connected to the internet.  It was expected that most things connecting to the internet would be minicomputers and mainframes.

It took some visionary and creative thinking to "come up" with the 
internet. But given such a train of thought the idea of everyone being 
connected isn't such a wild idea. I can imagine it'd be almost a given.

Although if I get the time frame right in those days you had 2 camps, 
those (ibm, dec...) who believed that there was no need for home 
computers and you only needed a few (hundred?) thousand big mainframes 
and minicomputers and those (commodore, apple...) who believed 
(rightfully so) there was going to be a big future and demand for home 
computers.

So I guess depending on what "camp" you were in, it's not that strange 
to not envision all these household computers being interconnected.

Greetings,
Jeroen