[OT] Re: We need a better Internet in America

[Randy Cole]

Born on a mountain top in Tennesee,
Greenest state in the land of the free,
Invented the Internet when he was three,
Made the first computer in nineteen-eighty.

Al, Al Gore, Leader of the twi-ttter-verse!


On 04/07/2010 07:28 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 04/07/2010 12:14 AM, Ric Werme wrote:
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>> From: "Greg Rundlett (freephile)"<greg at freephile.com>
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>>> I hope this message is considered "on topic" because
>>> a) the Internet was/is built on Linux
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>> You just lost all of us who worked on ARPAnet.  Of course, there aren't that
>> many of us, so maybe it doesn't matter.  The follow on to the ARPAnet, the
>> Internet, started around 1980 with the publishing of the core Internet
>> protocols and porting classics like the new (1973) FTP and Telnet protocols
>> and new ones like NFS and the rest of ONC-RPC.  Linux didn't appear until 1991
>> or so. I was "off net" in 1980, but I think BSD Unix is to the Internet as
>> TENEX and PDP-10s were to the ARPAnet.  Linux and Windows came along later.
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>> In V2, you might try dropping the "was".
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>> Sorry, I guess that wasn't the point you were making....
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> Gee, I thought the ARPANET was built on CP-M :-)
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