This 15-years-ago talk by Leonard Richardson provides useful perspective:
What happened? There are fewer big-name Internet protocols now than in 1993. Well, the Web ate those other protocols, just like the Internet ate Compuserve and BITNet and the UUCPNET and a bunch of other networks you’ve never heard of. It turns out most of the things we want to do on the Internet–have discussions, search databases, share files, look up things in directories–we can do over the web.
This 15-years-ago talk by Leonard Richardson provides useful perspective:
— https://www.crummy.com/writing/speaking/2008-QCon/
The whole thing is excellent and a useful bit of Silicon Valley / Cold War history.
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