11/9 There you have it. Gore "invented the Internet". More accurately,
he created this bill:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d102:16:./temp/~bdPGaI::|/bss/d102query.html|
\_ He was only about 25 years late. BBNPlanet, DARPA and the DOD
created the internet in the 60's. All this bill did was to
help in the transfer of ARPANET to NFSNET.
\_ But his bills helped make the Internet what it is today
- far more than the military/research ARPANET.
\_ Uh, no. TCP/IP, ICMP, IGMP, UDP, and most other major
protocols such as RIP, OSPF, FTP were authored under
DOD and DARPA contracts. Even Bill Joy's work here at
Cal in the late 70s and early 80s were DARPA funded.
The transition to NSFNET, didn't introduce any new
sturcture or commerical benefit. In fact the Internet
and the web did not take off until it was transfered
out of the control of NSF into commercial ISPs. Gore
did not help with the privatization of the Internet
which is the primary reason for its growth.
Bottom line, Gore is *exaggerating* if not lying.
I guess he must have master the Vulcan logical arts
to a higher degree than Spock. |