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To: Craig Freeman who wrote (17825)	12/30/2000 1:39:08 AM
From: Craig Freeman	Respond to of 60323

Correction: General Powell accepted his cabinet post on December 17th, as witnessed by this news article: nytimes.com See also: nytimes.com nytimes.com nytimes.com nytimes.com From this last post comes: "If you don't think it's a new world, think again: When George Bush Sr. left office in 1993, there were roughly 50 pages on the World Wide Web. Today there are a billion or two. When George Bush Sr. left office, virtually no one you knew had e-mail and most people thought the Internet was something used to catch fish with on the Nile. Today your grandmother has e-mail, not to mention every terrorist group in the world, and Internet access is considered an entitlement." Is there anyone here at SI/SNDK who honestly thinks that the WorldWide Web contained just 50 pages in 1993? If they had ansked General Powell, he might has corrected them (or, as a cabinet apppointee subject to Congressional approval, perhaps not ...) The sole stated purpose of creating the WWW was to create a redundant system of communication that would be impossible to destroy in limited nuclear warfare. That was in place long before 1993. It's the same world, but now we have a new President whose father "created the Internet". Craig