About 10 years ago I was in a meeting with Vint Cerf and couple of others executive from Worldcom. One of our sales guys made a joke about Al Gore inventing the Internet. Instead of starting the meeting, Vint invited us to his office to show us pictures of him with Al Gore (and a bunch of other famous people), and gave us a short history lesson of the Internet and the large role Al Gore played in making the Internet available to the public instead of keeping it for the military and academia. Though Al's role was only legislative, I found it interesting that Vint Cerf gave him so much credit.
Steve Bireley Managing Director Research and Development Rocket Software 70 Main St., Suite 51 • Warrenton, VA 20186 • USA Tel: +1.404.364.1731 • Mobile: +1.571.216.3530 Email: [email protected] Web: www.rocketsoftware.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mitch Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 3:57 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? ....you mean it wasn't Al Gore? Mitch -----Original Message----- From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[email protected]> To: IBM-MAIN <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Jul 23, 2012 12:47 pm Subject: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? ttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444464304577539063008406518.html WSJ mangles history to argue government didn't launch the Internet ttp://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/wsj-mangles-history-to-argue-government-didnt-launch-the-internet/ s We May Think - Vannevar Bush ttp://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/3881/ co-worker from the IBM science center: ttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson_Hendricks In 1976, MIT Professor Jerry Saltzer accompanied Hendricks to DARPA, here Henricks described his innovations to the principal scientist, r. Vinton P. Cerf. From that point on, Vint and other DARPA cientists adopted Hendricks -- connectionless approach. The result eveloped into the Internet as we know it today. ... snip ... note, GML was (also) invented at the IBM science center in 1969 and decade ater morphs into ISO standard SGML ... and then after another decade morphs nto TML ttp://infomesh.net/html/history/early first webserver outside europe is on slac's vm370 service: ttp://www.slac.stanford.edu/history/earlyweb/history.shtml "virtual machines" also invented at the IBM science center in the 60s past posts mentioning IBM science center ttp://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech ast posts mentioning IBM internal network ttp://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet ld email mentioning IBM internal network ttp://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vnet ast posts mentioning (mainframe) bitnet/earn network (ibm-main mailing ist originated on bitnet in the 80s) ttp://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet ast posts mentioning arpanet/internet ttp://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet ast posts mentioning GML/SGML ttp://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml TCP/IP is the technology basis for the modern internet, NSFNET ackbone was the operational basis for the modern internet, and CIX as the business basis for the modern internet; misc. old email about SFNET backbone: ttp://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet ast posts mentioning nsfnet backbone ttp://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet -- irtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- or IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, end email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
