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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (276075)	2/22/2006 2:00:18 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1578749

"The point is that without private enterprise, the Internet would have remained a government-funded research project for universities." It was mainly used as support for sites running Unix. That was the big part of Usenet at the time. I first logged on in mid-1984. I remember it well... Which is why Gore's role was so important. It provided the infrastructure so that private industry could create the 'Net as we know it. Sure, they could have done it without the opening up of the backbone, but nobody was going to make that kind of investment. It was too hard to see the value there. And it was a good use of the moribund Supercomputing Center. There were all those computers, servers, routers, et al that was idle. It took that essentially unused equipment and turned it into something useful. So Gore did overstate what he did. But it wasn't a vast overstatement as you are trying to make it seem. There was no getting from point A to point B without that legislation. I was very interested in the issue at the time. Even without the web, the Internet was a very useful resource with enormous potential.