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Originally Posted by wehateporn
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The Internet was created for the purpose of a handful of universities who had different computer systems talking different computer languages to have a common format to exchange information.
If it had not been for Pentagon spending in those university's that needed this data exchange, it perhaps either would have never happened or happened decades latter.
The format of unix systems seem to prevail even today.
When by a act of congress to open the internet to the public in the 80's, it was still just a command line driven system (text based).
It has not until the advent of HTML that it became the powerhouse we know it today.
I do remember one of the first things I made use of in the beginning of the text based systems was the .GIF file format. Probably the 1st most important thing that came from that and was part of creation of universal standards in data and exchange.
Funny, it really does not seem like all that long ago.