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A comment on NeXTstep Manual, Systems Programming with Objective-C and Driver Kit (1995). Parent comment

Re:NeXTstep Manual, Systems Programming with Objective-C and... by Longhanks on Sunday June 05, 2016 @10:32AM (#11841147)
Well, the Internet was invented on a NeXT machine.
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Re:NeXTstep Manual, Systems Programming with Objective-C and... by aaronbrethorst on Sunday June 05, 2016 @10:38AM (#11841183)
The web, not the internet.
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Re:NeXTstep Manual, Systems Programming with Objective-C and... by pjmlp on Sunday June 05, 2016 @01:07PM (#11841894)
Exactly, the old internet was already available in Xerox PARC.
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Re:NeXTstep Manual, Systems Programming with Objective-C and... by teddyh on Sunday June 05, 2016 @03:56PM (#11842796)
No, Xerox PARC introduced Ethernet, not the Internet.
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Re:NeXTstep Manual, Systems Programming with Objective-C and... by throwaway6436 on Tuesday June 07, 2016 @03:39AM (#11852983)
Man, so glad we have historians.

Slightly off topic, but this made me look at the efforts to preserve video game history in a whole new light.

Somebody has to become the historians of the early era of video games before it all bit rots away.

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Re:NeXTstep Manual, Systems Programming with Objective-C and... by pjmlp on Sunday June 05, 2016 @04:46PM (#11843032)
I was thinking about the concept of workstations connected over the network protocols, email, remote printers and file servers when I wrote it.
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