"Miss Perspicacia Tick" wrote in message
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Jone Doe wrote:
gigantic snip of whining

Windows XP operating system is not like an orange, or a banana to use
one of the more ridiculous examples from an earlier post. It is an
operating system, an intellectual property that is not sold per se,
but rented or leased to be used in one system. If you don't like the
terms of use of the system, don't use it. Get with Al Gore, who
invented the internet after all, and come up with a system that uses
binary codes of zeros and ones to do something useful, copyright it,
and sell it.


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Al Gore?! You mean Al Gore as in the ex-vice president?! I don't *THINK*
so!
The internet started life in 1969 as ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects
Agency NETwork) which went live in October of that year (my US history is
a
little hazy, but I believe Richard Nixon was president at the time. Al
Gore
would have been 21 at the time. In '69 he was at Harvard studying
politics).

The WWW, OTOH, was invented by Tim Berners-Lee, a Brit working at CERN
(the
European Particle Physics lab in Geneva) in 1980. He invented HTTP and
HTML
in 1990. For more info, see http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/lee.html.




http://www.governmentexecutive.com/d...9/031299t1.htm

March 12, 1999
Did Al Gore invent the Internet?

By Rebecca S. Weiner, National Journal's
Technology Daily




House Majority Leader Richard Armey, R-Texas, lampooned Vice President Al
Gore Thursday for telling an interviewer that he "took the initiative in
creating the Internet."

"If the Vice President created the Internet then I created the Interstate
highway system," Armey said in a statement released by his office Thursday.
"Both were begun during the Eisenhower Administration and I think Ike
actually deserves a little credit here."

"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in
creating the Internet," Gore said during an interview with CNN's Wolf
Blitzer, according to a CNN transcript.

Gore, who leads for the Democratic presidential nomination, has made
technology his trademark issue.

"Vice President Gore first popularized the term 'Information Superhighway'
more than 20 years ago and stands on the shoulders of great thinkers who
created the foundation for what is now the Internet," a Gore spokeswoman
said.

In fact, both men have rewritten a bit of history.

The precursor to the Internet, a Defense Department project called ARPANet,
was begun in 1969 under Richard Nixon's administration. That was seven years
before Gore was first elected to the House of Representatives.

The Interstate Highway system was indeed begun when Eisenhower was
president - and one of its prime architects was Gore's father, Sen. Albert
Gore, Sr. D-Tenn.


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