> Exactly. I choose to listen to Vint Cerf, undisputed as one of the > Founding Fathers of the Internet who said of Al Gore while defending > him from that false "I invented the Internet" meme:
False? Not really. While the "invented" part was nothing more than a fish-in-the-barrel response from Republicans, Al's ego did all the heavy lifting for them. "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/03/09/president.2000/transcript. gore/ He also had no problem scooping up the George Bush I initiative of the Clipper chip, so that the guvmint could eavesdrop on all encrypted communications. Luckily, that went nowhere. http://www.epic.org/crypto/clipper/gore_statement_feb_94.html Which brings me back to my original question: What has the Congress done for us lately on the Internet? ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
