Oh, and Kazaa, which is one of the earlier peer-to-peer networks, has said the same thing.

As the 1970s closed, these early networks enjoyed sufficient success to stimulate debate about the next steps in the context of the microcomputer's development.

Gould founded some of the earliest social networks.

In the early network, each computer on the network retrieved the hosts file (host.

In 2003, at age 37, Pincus founded his third startup, Tribe.net, an early social network.

Inexpensive minicomputers were an important component in the early networks.

The early network ran mostly east to west, connecting the richer areas in and around Berlin, as these routes had been deemed the most profitable.

An early computer video game called Spacewar was the first game to offer head-to-head competition, he said, and people played it across early networks.

A lawsuit filed by the entertainment industry in 2000 eventually put the earliest file-sharing network, Napster, out of business.

The network's earliest and largest corporate sponsor is Newcap Broadcasting.