How many of the web sites you visit on a daily basis are something other
than a university or a government research facility? How many of the
people that you regularly communicate with on the Internet are not at
one of those facilities, and for that matter, are you in the set of
people not at those facilities? That's how much of the Internet would
be missing (99.99% +) if legislation in 1992 had not opened up this
government military/research network to commercial use.
The government ARPA-net became the Internet we know today because Al
Gore recognized its potential and pushed legislation, first in 1988 to
help link universities and libraries, and additional legislation in 1992
which opened it to commercial traffic. Probably someone else would have
eventually done so if he hadn't, but maybe not for another decade or
more; or maybe enough of Congress would have been bought by a major
TelCom for them to have been granted an exclusive monopoly on the
Internet, totally changing its character. No one else in Congress was
pushing for expanded information access at the time. That's why Vint
Cerf gives Al Gore credit.
Joel C. Ewing
On 07/23/2012 04:11 PM, Steve Bireley wrote:
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
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Subject: Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?
....you mean it wasn't Al Gore?
Mitch
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From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[email protected]>
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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
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