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Comment on Bruce Sterling: Internet (1993)

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There's some wonderful lines in here, I particularly liked:

Planning has never seemed to have much to do with the seething, fungal development of the Internet...

And this one:

Its ease of use will also improve, which is fine news, for the savage UNIX interface of TCP/IP leaves plenty of room for advancements in user-friendliness...

Notice how www/web isn't mentioned? It existed, but even when the first graphical browser came out (that same year), it wasn't clear what the point was - like many, I was on a 2400 Baud modem so every picture or graphic on a page would take 5 - 10 minutes to "come down the wire".

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