The good old days of the innernet

[thedarkproject]

I just came across a cover cd for NetUser Magazine dating back to 1995. It proudly claims that it "Includes all the Internet software you need for email, Usenet, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), FTP, Telnet..." Note the absence of 'World Wide Web'. In fact, it only lists the Mosaic browser as the 17th application on the cd, coming after such important luminaries as WS_Gopher, Pine, GoSlip, and Trumpet Winsock among others. How things have changed.