The Second Internet

by Lawrence Hughes

"The First Internet (which I now call the Legacy Internet) is 27 years old. Think about what kind of CPUs," "amount of RAM, and which Operating System you were using in 1983. Probably a Z80 8-bit CPU with 64" "Kilobytes of RAM and CPM/80, or if you were a businessman, an 8088 “16-bit” CPU and DOS 1.0. If you were really lucky, you might have had an expensive Hard Disk Drive with a massive TEN megabytes of storage. What, many of you reading this weren’t even alive then? Ask your father...