Let me add to this interesting thread, that it is in the interest of
the present administration to discredit anything and anyone from the
Clinton administration... the reason is because the last thing they want
is to have the Clintons back in the White House... be aware of smearing
campaigns circulating on the Internet and the media nowadays...
CS
Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
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
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