Windows Rant

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 15:32 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> On 07/11/2010 03:24 PM, Calcpage wrote:
> > On Jul 11, 2010, at 5:14 PM, Karl Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >
> >    
> >> On 07/11/2010 02:29 PM, Michael Pavling wrote:
> >>      
> >>> On 11 July 2010 20:57, Karl Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com>   wrote:
> >>>
> >>>        
> >>>>      Heck Yes! In my storage is a computer I bought around 1960. It
> >>>> arrived and had 2 3.5 inch floppies and it had 16 Meg of RAM.
> >>>>
> >>>>          
> >>> You must mean 1990....
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>        
> >>          Nope 1960 about. By 1990 the Internet was Everywhere.
> >>

The first IBM PC was released in 1981 -

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa031599.htm

The Internet was not everywhere in 1990.  Commercial Internet providers
were just getting started in the last 1980s.  Growth started to take off
in the early 90s.  See this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet

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