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To: TigerPaw who wrote (66006)	5/16/2006 6:53:27 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Don't burst his bubble. He doesn't even know that he's quoting Dick Armey about what Al Gore said. It was a crappy construct on Gore's part, but no reasonable person looking at the entire text would conclude that Gore was claiming he invented the internet. The poor guy [Terrence] can't even find on the internet the person who is most commonly referred to as the internet. The ARPANET would still be an obscure connection between some universities and defense contractors had not Al Gore pushed for the laws that declassified it, and made the intellectual property available without charge. Al Gore did not invent the ARPANET, but he is responsible for it becoming the INTERNET. Possibly more important is the fact that Gore was instrumental in getting the initial funding for Arpanet. All of the early technical folks that worked on Arpanet freely acknowledge that. But Terrence needs to live in his own little world of Dick Armey's propaganda. jttmab

To: TigerPaw who wrote (66006)	5/16/2006 7:21:51 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 173976

Did Al Gore invent the Internet? According to a CNN transcript of an interview with Wolf Blitzer, Al Gore said, "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." Al Gore was not yet in Congress in 1969 when ARPANET started or in 1974 when the term "Internet" first came into use. Gore was elected to Congress in 1976. In fairness, Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf acknowledged in a paper titled, "Al Gore and the Internet," that Gore supported the growth of the Internet.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (66006)	5/26/2006 3:06:46 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

According to BBC, the true inventor of the Internet: Sir Tim Berners-Lee Web inventor warns of 'dark' net By Jonathan Fildes BBC News science and technology reporter in Edinburgh The web should remain neutral and resist attempts to fragment it into different services, web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said. Recent attempts in the US to try to charge for different levels of online access web were not "part of the internet model," he said in Edinburgh. He warned that if the US decided to go ahead with a two-tier internet, the network would enter "a dark period". Sir Tim was speaking at the start of a conference on the future of the web. "What's very important from my point of view is that there is one web," he said. "Anyone that tries to chop it into two will find that their piece looks very boring." An equal net The British scientist developed the web in 1989 as an academic tool to allow scientists to share data. Since then it has exploded into every area of life. You get this tremendous serendipity where I can search the internet and come across a site that I did not set out to look for Tim Berners-Lee However, as it has grown, there have been increasingly diverse opinions on how it should evolve. The World Wide Web Consortium, of which Sir Tim is the director, believes in an open model. This is based on the concept of network neutrality, where everyone has the same level of access to the web and that all data moving around the web is treated equally. This view is backed by companies like Microsoft and Google, who have called for legislation to be introduced to guarantee net neutrality. The first steps towards this were taken last week when members of the US House of Representatives introduced a net neutrality bill. Pay model But telecoms companies in the US do not agree. They would like to implement a two-tier system, where data from companies or institutions that can pay are given priority over those that cannot. This has particularly become an issue with the transmission of TV shows over the internet, with some broadband providers wanting to charge content providers to carry the data. The internet community believes this threatens the open model of the internet as broadband providers will become gatekeepers to the web's content. Providers that can pay will be able to get a commercial advantage over those that cannot. There is a fear that institutions like universities and charities would also suffer. The web community is also worried that any charges would be passed on to the consumer. Optimism Sir Tim said this was "not the internet model". The "right" model, as exists at the moment, was that any content provider could pay for a connection to the internet and could then put any content on to the web with no discrimination. Speaking to reporters in Edinburgh at the WWW2006 conference, he argued this was where the great benefit of the internet lay. "You get this tremendous serendipity where I can search the internet and come across a site that I did not set out to look for," he said. A two-tier system would mean that people would only have full access to those portions of the internet that they paid for and that some companies would be given priority over others. But Sir Tim was optimistic that the internet would resist attempts to fragment. "I think it is one and will remain as one," he said. The WWW2006 conference will run until Friday at the International Conference Centre in Edinburgh. Story from BBC NEWS: news.bbc.co.uk Published: 2006/05/23 14:12:40 GMT © BBC MMVI