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Wayne B

On Tue, 02 Apr 2013 10:32:50 -0400, wrote:

If I had to point to one man who brought the internet to the people I
would say Steve Case who included an internet browser to AOL at a time
when nobody had even heard of it.
Prior to that "online" meant going to an in house service like
Compuserve, Prodigy, AOL or a privately run BBS.

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There were a lot of people on the Internet prior to Steve Case and
AOL. Many of us would argue that letting AOL users on the internet
was the end not the beginning. Once the unwashed mass of AOL users
starting running rampant, parents, legislators and law enforcement
types suddenly discoverred that the internet was like the wild west in
many respects. Just about anything could be easily found in those
days and all of the hand wringers and "ain't it awful" types suddenly
had a new cause: We must protect the children from the internet!

Of course these days we'e trying to protect the internet from the
children. :-)