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What Internet? ? ?

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by entawanabi

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The Internet was started three or four decades ago based on the equipment at Universities Colleges and military places, THAT Stuff is GONE, The Mainframes; The Base Servers, with cubic yards of harddrive; The Switchers, darnned if I know what a Switcher is; Even th companies, Universities & Collegs and of course the military places aren't there or aren't the same anymore anyway.

Is there a net? YES! Since everyone insists on useing the worn out stuff they have we are all on the Microsoft Net of interconnected screen operations co-supporting.

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by rknrlkid

that all that stuff was privatized.

I've seen a map of the backbone used by MCI, which is a private company. I am guessing there probably is a government backbone too, but we don't see it because we are average citizens. But I am sure the "internet" as we know it is owned by the big telecommunication companies.

But I agree, the internet is not the way it started out. I was in a discussion last night with some friends, talking about how we used to get on the internet VIA DOS, by connecting with someone's UNIX mainframe. None of this graphical user interface stuff, mind you. (We don't need no steenking peechers!) ::laffs::

I'm not sure if the change to the internet is a good or bad thing. But there HAS to be some kind of hardware supporting this thing somewhere owned by somebody!

by entawanabi

First I'm familiar with "A" MCI map it is for the companies structures and yes to a degree it supports. Sadly the largest and most commonly used "INTERNET" is Microsoft, all the rest is gone.

I use ACCESS and its Web strip and go thru the web which is what is supportted by everything now and the nets are private things mostly internal, try IBM net it's neat!

by ozi eagle

A switcher is manufacturer from metal, mostly steel. They run on round metal wheels, (also of steel) and are used to push or pull laden, or empty, receptacles for goods around on metal rails (steel) to facilitate these receptacles being connected together in such a way that a device, like a switcher, but much bigger, can then move these receptacles to another place, where another switcher then disconnects all these receptacles and rearranges them for further distribution.

Early switchers were powered by steam, but they were noisy and dirty. New switchers are now diesel powered, they are still dirty and noisy.

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