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

David Ross ross at math.hawaii.edu
Tue Dec 25 13:12:15 CST 2007


> > 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?

ARPAnet was *one* network.  There were many floating around - JANet in
England, Alohanet here in Hawaii, and so on.  What the enabling
legislation did was structure and finance the "inter" part of the
internet.

David



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