• AA5B@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I was there for the beginning of the internet …

    Al Gore was instrumental in passing legislation that set the foundation for commercialized internet … and all us old-timers hated it.

    Nope, I was there as serial cables and token ring coalesced toward Ethernet, various telemetry and others built toward a common internet, individual well-known servers gave way to a vast directory of dozens.

    Much later on, there was this minor invention of Tim Berners-Lee that brought everything together, and I was one of the coders for what may have been the first 401k management web site