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Bob Kuykendall wrote:
Earlier, wrote:

Mal wrote:

The greatest weapon USA military ever released to the world the Internet.

Why don't you keep your anti-American comments to yourself?...

I dunno; I happen to agree with Mal that the ARPA/DARPA Internet _is_
one of the greatest weapons the US Military ever released. And, I don't
particulary see anything un-American about that statement.

As a weapon for freedom of thought and expression, as a weapon against
misinformation and disinformation, the Internet is unparalleled, and on
occasion its military creators probably regret the hell out of letting
everyone in the world get their hands on it. As John Gilmore wrote,
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."

Bob K.

Bob,

With all do respect: internet was not invented by the US military. Not
even close. Internet was developed by Englishman named Tim Berners-Lee,
who I believe lives in London. He was even knighted by the Queen so, he
is Sir Tim Berners-Lee. But this guy Mal is insinuating that the US
military "released" the internet and if you buy to his story I don't
know what to think of it. He is using every time he can, something
against us. Every time. Don't take my word for it. Just look at his
previous postings, you can run a search with his name in it and then
you can read his uneducated, arrogant postings referring in derogatory
terms to the US. So, in conclusion his referral to the US military as
to " The greatest weapon USA military ever released to the world the
Internet." is aimed that us again and it is a cheap shot.

Sincerely,

Jacek

wrote:
Bob Kuykendall wrote:
Earlier, wrote:



With all do respect: internet was not invented by the US military. Not
even close. Internet was developed by Englishman named Tim Berners-Lee,
who I believe lives in London. He was even knighted by the Queen so, he
is Sir Tim Berners-Lee. But this guy Mal is insinuating that the US
military "released" the internet and if you buy to his story I don't
know what to think of it. He is using every time he can, something
against us. Every time. Don't take my word for it. Just look at his
previous postings, you can run a search with his name in it and then
you can read his uneducated, arrogant postings referring in derogatory
terms to the US. So, in conclusion his referral to the US military as
to " The greatest weapon USA military ever released to the world the
Internet." is aimed that us again and it is a cheap shot.

Sincerely,

Jacek

The US does enough damage to itself to worry about what someone else
says. Get over it. We have become the laughing stock of the world
because of our current leadership.

If you wish to run around defending the country (more specifically the
idiot in charge right now) you will spend your all your time doing it
at the rate the President and his henchman/women are going.

wrote:
With all do respect: internet was not invented by the US military. Not
even close. Internet was developed by Englishman named Tim Berners-Lee,
who I believe lives in London. He was even knighted by the Queen so, he
is Sir Tim Berners-Lee. But this guy Mal is insinuating that the US
military "released" the internet and if you buy to his story I don't
know what to think of it. He is using every time he can, something
against us. Every time. Don't take my word for it. Just look at his
previous postings, you can run a search with his name in it and then
you can read his uneducated, arrogant postings referring in derogatory
terms to the US. So, in conclusion his referral to the US military as
to " The greatest weapon USA military ever released to the world the
Internet." is aimed that us again and it is a cheap shot.

Uh, don't confuse the "World Wide Web" (i.e. web browsers and servers)
with the "Internet". The Internet (along with email, and Usenet, on
which we were having this discussion) existed long before there was any
such thing as web browsers. And, you are completely wrong another
thing, the Internet had as its founding core ARPAnet (ARPA being the US
Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is now
known as DARPA) a US military project started in the late 60s. I
developed networking and communications equipment for ARPAnet during the
mid 70s, and I can assure you, I spent an awful lot of time at military
bases and DOD contractor sites, as well as universities...

Marc

wrote:

With all do respect: internet was not invented by the US military. Not
even close. Internet was developed by Englishman named Tim Berners-Lee,
who I believe lives in London.

Sorry, but you're completely wrong. Bob is right.

The Internet grew from ARPANET, which was a Pentagon project to develop
a robust network that could automatically route round damaged or failing
sections. Its secret is that it was a packet switched network rather
than circuit switched, like the phone. Packet switching was first
demonstrated at the National Physical Laboratories in Teddington, a
suburb of London.

The Internet dates from the early 80s and provided e-mail, file transfer
(ftp) and newsgroups as its initial services.

The World Wide Web, which Tim Berners-Lee developed at CERN, arrived
about 10 years later and is NOT "The Internet" - the Web is merely
another service that the Internet makes available.

I, and many others, were using the Internet before Berners-Lee had his
inspiration and can clearly remember the appearance of the first web
browsers - first Mosaic and Cello, followed by Netscape with MS and IE
bringing up the rear.


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