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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (560525)4/13/2010 9:41:26 PM
From: TimF4 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) of 1576177
 
"Expansion from a low level is not creation."

Sure it is.

No it isn't. They are simply different things. I typically would present more of an argument, but its like your saying blue is orange, or left is the same as upside down, there really isn't anything to argue about.

There is no reason to suspect it would have been anywhere near as pervasive as it is now.

There is no reason to think it wouldn't have been.

Ok, first off, the Internet did not exist before Gore started to agitate for it. ARPAnet did exist

ARPAnet is the internet in its early form. If he had paid for the food of some three year old who's now 10, he didn't create the child.

but the Internet protocols were not adopted until 1982 and weren't implemented until 1983

"The idea was worked out in more detailed form by Cerf's networking research group at Stanford in the 1973–74 period, resulting in the first TCP specification"

en.wikipedia.org

Yes there's been changes in protocol since then, there where also changes before then, after all ARPAnet was up before TCP. The standards adopted in '82 don't represent the creation of the internet. When we move to IPv6 (and/or something else later on) it won't be the creation of the Internet either, or if it changes its name after that (which I'm guess it won't), it won't be the creation of some new network or "network of networks" with that new name, it will just be a further development.
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