On May 3, 2005, at 7:12 AM, Howard Winter wrote:

> I set up a very simple hypertext system in 1987, ...
>  Was it really another seven years before HTTP came along?
>
No, but it was longer than that before it "caught on."
http://www.w3.org/History.html says it was 1993 when CERN declared WWW
technology free, the Internet acceptable use policy was reinterpretted
to allow commercial traffic, and NCSA Mosaic was released on many 
platforms.
That sounds like a pretty pivotal year...  It wasn't till after that 
that
tcp stacks came "standard" with personal computer operating systems.

BillW
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