Re: Internet Lore

From: Relaxification (relaxification_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/12/04 

Date: 11 Oct 2004 21:03:24 -0700

"hanson" <hanson@quick.net> wrote in message news:<YSX8d.4388$UP1.1515@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net>...
> "robert j. kolker" <nowhere@nowhere.net> wrote in message
> news:2sio10F1ls3buU3@uni-berlin.de...
> > > [hanson]
> > > 1955........wow......you must be a living fossil, Bob.
> > > Still highly radioactive, .....well, in spurts!... Congrats.
> > > Now, tell me, is it then an urban legend that the internet
> > > became the public version of the original, secret (D)ARPANET
> > > that was used during the cold war to survive decapitation?
> > > hanson
> >
> [Bob]
> > It is true to this extent. TCP/IP was invented for ARPANET and it became
> > the basis for Internet. The protocol being invented using your money and
> > mine is in the public domain. Clearly much of Internet particularly the
> > protocols for Web applications were invented post ARPANET, but the
> > foundation was layed as part of ARPNET.
> > And no, Al Gore did not invent any of it.
> >
> But he said, he did! THAT counts, just as much a the
> fact that he got more votes.....AHAHAHAHA.......ahahaha
> ahahaha.....ahahahahanson

Hmm. I'd like to see that quote. He didn't say he did.

But he did take an early interest and fund the damn thing.

December 29, 1988 edition of the New York Times:

Computer scientists and Government officials are urging the creation
of a nationwide "data superhighway" that they believe would have a
dramatic economic impact, rivaling that of the nation's interstate
highway system.

This highway would consist of a high-speed fiber-optic data network
joining dozens of supercomputers at national laboratories and making
them available to thousands of academic and industry researchers
around the country ...

Legislation introduced in October by Senator Albert Gore, Democrat of
Tennessee, included initial financing for development and construction
of a National Research Network. Backers of the measure say that
Federal financing for the project is necessary to develop the
technology and convince industry that vastly speedier computer
networks are commercially viable.

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