----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Thomas" <frank.thomasftr@free.fr> To: <air-l@aoir.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 4:17 AM Subject: Re: [Air-l] Internet History/Stages, was Internet in Everyday Life David and all other folks, Thus, to understand the history of the Internet, I propose to study at least 5 development paths and write their development history: the scientific, the social/associative, the commercial, the public/administrative, the military and other large intranets. Frank That's a good way of looking at it, but don't forget the educational strand, the president of Cisco having claimed that education would be the Internet's "killer app". With online education, virtual universities and e-training, never mind less formal educational uses of the Net, education has to be a major developmental strand.........Alex Alex.Kuskis@utoronto.ca