Re: legacy /8

[Jeroen van Aart <jeroen () mompl net>]

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