Re: OT: Gore's Global Warming


"Hachiroku ????" <Trueno@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:39:06 -0400, Cathy F. wrote:

Of course not, because Gore is one of more honest politicians we've
had, although he's certainly not up there with Gerald Ford and Jimmy
Carter.

"I invented the Internet"
Too bad Ken Olsen et al were already working on it when Gore was
'inventing' it...

He never claimed to invent it; he did do a lot to get it mainstreamed
though.

Cathy


It was already beyond the planning stages by the time Gore 'thought' of
it.
DARPANet was implemented around 1968, and on a massive scale around 1971:

I already knew about ARPANET - that it was the forerunner of the internet
that we now know & use.

Cathy



- ARPANET was the network that became the basis for the Internet.
Based on a concept first published in 1967, ARPANET was developed under
the direction of the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). In
1969, the idea became a modest reality with the interconnection of four
university computers. The initial purpose was to communicate with and
share computer resources among mainly scientific users at the connected
institutions. ARPANET took advantage of the new idea of sending
information in small units called packets that could be routed on
different paths and reconstructed at their destination. The development of
the TCP/IP protocols in the 1970s made it possible to expand the size of
the network, which now had become a network of networks, in an orderly
way.

In the 1980s, ARPANET was handed over to a separate new military network,
the Defense Data Network, and NSFNET, a network of scientific and academic
computers funded by the National Science Foundation. In 1995, NSFNet in
turn began a phased withdrawal to turn the backbone of the Internet
(called vBNS) over to a consortium of commercial backbone providers
(PSINet, UUNET,ANS/AOL, Sprint, MCI, and AGIS-Net99).


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