Re: As stem-cell bill languishes, so do the ill and dying
- From: "stork" <tbandrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:57:06 -0500
Well, that's a bit misleading. You could make the argument that
Personal Computers and the Internet would have been born without any
government funding.
The first semiconductor "chips" were invented by Fairchild to solve a
weight problem with missiles. After that, private industry took over.
Intel's earliest customers were people that made calculators.
Modern ethernet networking was done by the private sector beginning in
the 1970s with Xerox but later by a consortium consisting of Xerox,
DEC, and Intel. Novell Netware was introduced in 1983. Microsoft LAN
Manager came out in the mid 1980s and IBM's Token Ring was out there as
well. Banyan Vines was popular as well.
In short, there were a lot of people developing their own protocols for
PC communications.
The real reason that the Internet became successful was because while
the PC groups had many different kinds of networking choices, the more
high end workstations - Unix machines, had settled on TCP/IP and so the
whole problem of network compatibility was a non-issue for them.
Going back aways in history, the development of computers was
subsidized - they were military devices during world war II to crack
german codes and calculate artillery trajectories. Private firms such
as IBMs popularized the civilian use of computers as labor saving
tools. The PC industry, on the other hand, was characterized by a more
revolutionary zeal to let everyone have access to every piece of
information available. There were ideological forces at play in the PC
community that made the invention of the internet more inevitable than
less.
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