Re: Runaway Global Warming Possible!

From: Eric Chomko (echomko_at__at_polaris.umuc.edu)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:44:49 +0000 (UTC)

Rand Simberg (simberg.interglobal@org.trash) wrote:
: On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 01:23:03 GMT, in a place far, far away, Joshua
: Halpern <vze23qvd@verizon.net> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
: such a way as to indicate that:

: >> : Yes, virtually all of the net's software components were created for the
: >> : benefit of the community, rather than for the benefit of some corporate
: >> : bottom line.
: >>
: >>
: >> Perhaps, but the internet was a US Army government program that was then
: >> turned over to the private sector to flourish.
: >
: >Actually it was first turned over to NSF.

: And it was developed by DARPA (actually, at that time ARPA), not the
: Army.

Wasn't it first an Army contract?

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