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To: i-node who wrote (826288)	12/28/2014 5:10:06 PM
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The Internet is the best example, which was funded by a small amount of defense money, but lingered a decade and a half before private industry turned it into what it is today. Bad example, i-node. ARPANet and the nascent Internet got its first real break with the release of TCP/IP circa 1983. I remember because I was providing support for a VAX-11/750 running BSD 4.1 around that time and was involved with wiring UTMB at Galveston with 2400 baud fixed circuit landlines. The then new Department of Academic Computing was providing computing services for the academic side of the hospital. So I got access to the early Internet. Before the TCP/IP changeover ARPANet was more of a distributed bulletin board. Afterwards, it was a network of backbone sites that moved the information from one machine to another across dedicated phone lines. There was only a couple of meg. of data per day, so that worked.It grew and evolved a more complex makeup as time went on. Al Gore crafted and eventually got passed the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991(I think), based on a report by Kleinrock on the need of a national research network. The result of the bill was the NII, and that laid the foundation for what we know as the Internet today. From the beginning, it envisioned a seamlessly integrated network that consisted of public and private components. Private industry didn't take a small and neglected entity and turned it into something huge, they were invited to come in and participate in something that was designed to be something huge. It was the government driving it the whole time. And it worked. I was there. I was following it from the beginning. But you don't have to take my word for it. Look up what Kleinrock has had to say about it. He was the man behind ARPANet. While I was standing out on the sidewalk peeking in through the fence, Kleinrock was manning the steam shovel...

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