>In an anarchic fashion that opened us up to all sorts of network >abuse.
Yeah, right. Much better to restrict it to government and corporations who never abuse things. Stop all this "Arab Spring" and whistleblower type nonsense along the way. Maybe IBM would host IBM-MAIN. (IBM tried their best not to join the Internet, after all). I guess this is all a bit off-topic here? -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. Juli 2012 14:00 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? In <[email protected]>, on 07/23/2012 at 07:32 PM, "Joel C. Ewing" <[email protected]> said: >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. In an anarchic fashion that opened us up to all sorts of network abuse. >Probably someone else would have eventually done so if he hadn't, >but maybe not for another decade or more; And maybe without the epidemics of, e.g., spam, virus attacks, DOS attacks. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
