Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:21:00 PDT, "Paul M. Moriarty" said:

> Well, I can't claim a .arpa, but I've been around 20+ years.  It  
> strikes me that if we left the Internet in the hands of the "old  
> timers", we'd be stuck in a world of 7-bit ascii remarking about the  
> latest breakthroughs with gopher.  Because, in my experience,  plain  
> text ascii is world that most old timers either live in or pine for.

Highly unlikely, because even when it *was* a world of 7-bit ascii (and
even *before* then, when 36 bit machines with 6/7/8/9 bit bytes walked
the Net), they wanted to escape the 7-bit-ascii constraints:

0086 Proposal for a Network Standard Format for a Data Stream to
     Control Graphics Display. S.D. Crocker. January 1971. (Format:
     TXT=7117 bytes) (Updated by RFC0125) (Status: UNKNOWN)

Yes, that *predates* this other RFC:

0097 First Cut at a Proposed Telnet Protocol. J.T. Melvin, R.W.
     Watson. February 1971. (Format: PDF=403375 bytes) (Status: UNKNOWN)

Mind you this was in the very early days of NCP, when the net had a limit
of 256 hosts...

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