I guess Gore could argue that without his decision, the internet would not exist as it does today. It would have come about one way or another, but it might not have been in the same form. I like to think it would have evolved as a huge array or cybernetic carrier pigeons with freakin' lasers on their heads.
So he was a facilitator. Much like the producer credit on a film. In my BBS days, around 1991 I wrote a 'spec' for an Amiga Windowing based "File Explorer", Chat client and FTP client, which communicated via a multiplexed communications protocol. So in that respect, I invented the internet as well. All this stuff probably existed, i just didn't know about it (ironically, because i didn't have an inter- web. :) But the things I wanted were just kind of obvious and a natural progression. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
