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Re:Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (1985) by zurn on Monday September 15, 2014 @02:46AM (#8317568)
These predictions were very commonplace by then. In 1983, TCP/IP came along and MILNET was split off. This is commonly considered to mark the start of the Internet. First .com domain was registered in 1985.
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Re:Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (1985) by icebraining on Monday September 15, 2014 @04:43AM (#8317841)
Not to mention other services like Minitel, which already had one million users in France.
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Re:Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (1985) by drblast on Monday September 15, 2014 @01:28PM (#8320100)
Remember "The Network Is The Computer?"

1984.

http://www.tcse-k12.org/pages/network.pdf

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Re:Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (1985) by leoc on Monday September 15, 2014 @06:03PM (#8321802)
The further twist is that just a few months after this interview, Jobs left Apple and founded a company to build graphical, Ethernet-connected, UNIX-based personal workstations: in other words to compete on Sun's turf. I think the Sun/Apple and Sun/NeXT relationship is an interesting, underexplored part of an overtold story, especially since by 2000 Apple had more or less stolen Sun's original clothes as a profitable vendor of Unix workstations.
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