> These are the > people who provided early funding for and nurtured the Internet. They > deserve some credit. Al Gore did know what he was pushing for back > then, > just like today he is pushing for solving the greenhouse gas problem.
Al Gore! He's so dreamy! Ah yes, the accidental one-hit-wonder known the Internet. With such teenage sensibilities, I suppose you think Sanjaya should be the lead engineer for the next one interest groups are now whining for. Such pop-star adualation is not too unlike recognizing a guy who mistakenly dug out the foundation for your house, thinking it was for someone and something else, but then ignoring the architect and all the other craftsmen who actually built the house itself and the vendors who furnished it. What has Congress & Co. done for us lately on the Internet? DRM, DMCA, CDA, COPA, CIPA, the PATRIOT Act, CAN-SPAM, Echelon, Carnivore, the 1996 Telecom Act...shall I go on? Do you actually think Gore had the faintest idea of what was yet to come in 1989? His bill was for a top-down researcher's network using "supercomputers," something that is the exact opposite of the Internet today. It was an appropriation that was eventually in the right place and the right time. He got lucky. So did Nostrodamus. ************************************************************************ * ==> 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 ************************************************************************
