Internet Use

[Katahu]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/1 ... index.html

Read on my friends.

[flyboy 28]

Interesting. I know we have always had the Internet, even when it was brand-new on PC. I don't think it was around for the 486, was it?

[legoalex2000]

omg, dont get me started on the history of the internet. i did a 4 page paper from 1969 with DARPANET to internet 2.0 today.

ramos

[ozzy72]

You and me both Drum! I had to do a paper on it a couple of years back. If you really want to know the genuine history of the internet then try reading A Brief History of the Future: the Origins of the Internet

[TacitBlue]

Didn't Al Gore invent it?  :P

[jordonj]

From what I understand, Al Gore chaired several Senate subcommittees that controlled funding for ARPANET.  They saw the potential, and approved funding for it, helping it grow and evolve.

Not quite so outrageous when you look at it that way is it?

[MattNW]

Interesting. I know we have always had the Internet, even when it was brand-new on PC. I don't think it was around for the 486, was it?

Yeah, it was around for the 486. I had internet on my Packard Bell 386 but it was expensive and all text based. Long before then I also used to dial up bulletin boards on my TRS 80 Coco. Guy in town set one up and we used to dial in on our 300 bd modems (that's 300 bits per second not 300 kilobits) and type messages to each other. We thought that was high tech as all hell.  ;D

[H]

...We thought that was high tech as all hell.  ;D

Certainly would be the term now .

[legoalex2000]

ARPANET.

the original original name was DARPANET.

there is another thing, if yu wanted to know where the first ethernet network came from, check ALOHANET from Univ. of Hawaii.

al gore DID NOT invent the intenet.

ramos

[jordonj]

the original original name was DARPANET.

there is another thing, if yu wanted to know where the first ethernet network came from, check ALOHANET from Univ. of Hawaii.

al gore DID NOT invent the intenet.

ramos

I didn't say he actually invented it...read my post again.

[Ambassador]

Al Gore didn't invent the internet and he never said that he did.  During an interview with Wolf Blitzer in 1999, Gore said, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the internet."  He was taking credit for a program he championed and funded.

The phrase "invented the internet" first appeared in a Republican Party press release and would be repeated by the mainstream media thousands of times during the 2000 presidential campaign.  What should have been an enormous credit to the man's vision was used to attack him politically.  The attack succeeded because the right leaning mainstream media encouraged it.

That is the TRUTH, once and for all, from a non-American outsider.