Re: Re: Which format is best for a book that will be downloaded?

What fun is a mailing list if we can't nitpick :-?

auwg <auwg-/[email protected]> wrote:
> --- In [email protected], "Christopher R. Maden" wrote:
> > Internet: 1969
> > PDF: 1993
> 
> No, NOT the old ARPANET with restricted access and almost no
> accessibility beyond the military and campuses.
> The commercially available public version that debuted in the early
> '90's and which we all use now.

We technologists tend to think of it starting in 1970 or so, and by 1988
there were 60,000 hosts linked to the ARPANET available to be hit by the
Morris worm, but officially calling it the Internet came in 1995.
Perhaps you're thinking of the World Wide Web, a couple of programs and
protocols which hit the Internet like a hailstorm circa 1993 (actually,
1991, but Mosaic (and pictures) came out in 1993).

> There was a Protected Document Format (locked parameters for printing)
> available as far back as 1987, 'cuz that's when I first encountered one.

Yeah, but whatever that was, it wasn't PDF.  Probably Postscript with a
proprietary DRM wrapper.  The Camelot project at Adobe, which produced
PDF, started in 1991 -- see Warnock's "Camelot" paper at
http://www.planetpdf.com/planetpdf/pdfs/warnock_camelot.pdf.  The "P"
stands for Portable.

So, you're correct in saying that PDF pre-dated officially calling the
Internet the Internet, and almost predated the WWW.

Bill


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