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Re:Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana (1995) by kanox on Saturday August 01, 2020 @06:53PM (#24024628)
The "web" generally refers to http/html which were extremely new in 1995, much newer than generic tcp/ip networking. The first netscape navigator was released in 1994!
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Re:Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana (1995) by airstrike on Saturday August 01, 2020 @07:23PM (#24024802)
Yup. "The web" = www.*
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Re:Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana (1995) by Ajedi32 on Saturday August 01, 2020 @09:59PM (#24025680)
Or rather, http://
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Re:Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana (1995) by Threeve303 on Sunday August 02, 2020 @03:21PM (#24030916)
It was an interesting time with Windows 95 being shipped without IE or a TCP/IP stack by default.

This lead to needing to install stuff like Trumpet Winsock.

This mirrored the local networking capabilities between Windows 3.x and 3.11 Windows for workgroups.

Eventually, Microsoft would realize the need to include all of this by default in Windows, which led to the antitrust suit.

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