On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:39:41AM -0400, C F wrote: > >> Since the whole > >> paragraph only speaks about the Intenet in that one sentence (I took > >> the initiative.....), then it's NOT out of context to say that he > >> claimed he invented the Internet. > > > >Again, no, it's not out of context. It's merely incorrect. > > > >If one chooses to interpret Gore's usage of "Internet" to mean "the > >commercial Internet that we have today", then yes, the initiatives he > >worked on, including NREN, probably had a lot to do with it. > > OK, I'm listening, since this was on TV in English, can you explain > what other meaning Internet has in the English language? > > This is my source, which disagrees with your English interpretation > for the word Internet: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet
"The Internet is the largest equivalence class in the reflexive transitive symmetric closure of the relationship "can be reached by an IP packet from". --Seth Breidbart But for our purposes here, The Internet is a large commercial network service utility to which you can purchase access from any number of competing vendors, which can carry any traffic, whether commercial or not, and which has a sufficiently large number of service providers (and potential clients) attached to it to make it a worthwhile thing to spend your money connecting to. (Metcalfe's Law.) That's not what it looked like exactly 10 years ago, and one of the major contributors to that was Gore, and the programs he mentions championing. Asterisk wouldn't exist in anything like it's current form had the Internet not Gone Commercial, since one of its major selling points is it's ability to connect with all the commercial VoIP providers we see on -biz... who wouldn't have a network to get your packets to them otherwise. Is he solely responsible? No. Did he have lots of help? Yes. Is he correct to use the phrase "create the Internet" to imply "as we know it today"? Clearly, there's a disagreement here. But let's not fight that battle over the definition of "is", 'k? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 "That's women for you; you divorce them, and 10 years later, they stop having sex with you." -- Jennifer Crusie; _Fast_Women_ _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
