[Thinkpad] ENOUGH - Re: Top posting,.....

Khoury, Paul khourypa at gmail.com
Tue Dec 25 05:14:47 CST 2007


> -----Original Message-----
> From: thinkpad-bounces at stderr.org 
> [mailto:thinkpad-bounces at stderr.org] On Behalf Of Bob Stockler
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 6:00 PM
> To: Thinkpad at stderr.org
> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] ENOUGH - Re: Top posting,.....
> 
> No, it was Al Gore, when he was in the Senate and introduced 
> a bill to get Federal financing for a joint effort of IBM, 
> public universities and the Federal Government to join in an 
> effort to start what has become the InterNet.
> 

Aren't we forgetting ARPAnet here?  Considering that domain names have
been around over 30 years, and basic UNIX network utils have been around
nearly 40 years?  Or is Al Gore referring to modern internet (does anyone
remember gopher)?



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