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BTW; the internet's not in the constitution either. Nor are cars, or many other things. Gues you opose them too. Both can be used for nefarious means.

One, cars weren't developed by the government, they were developed by private enterprises. Two, while the feds did develop the internet originally it was a military project funded by DARPA.

I just read a history on the internet, and saw no mention of CERN. It was, according to this http://www.davesite.com/webstation/net-history.sht ml a product that came out of a US military project.

All of that is produced by these tags ( which are probably overkill)

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<DT> The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
<DD> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/">http://www .bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/</a>
<DT> Html Tag info
<DD> <a href="http://www.davesite.com/webstation/html/">so me random site I found...</a>
</DL>

Teach yourself how to write HTML Links:
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In a CNN interview on 9 March 2000, Al Gore claimed "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."

Was Al Gore really the "Father of the Internet"? Well, no. Albert Gore, Junior, was not elected to Congress until 1976, although his father Albert Gore, Senior, was previously a Senator. Junior represented Tennesee's Fourth District in the House of Representatives, then was elected to the US Senate in 1984. (Source: "Current Biography Yearbook 1987", page 213, edited by Charles Moritz, published by The H.H. Wilson Company, NY, copyright 1987 and 1988.) The Pentagon funded the original development of the Internet, and the military contracting company Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) began constructing it in 1969. (Source: see the Internet history FAQ pages listed below.) It was originally called ARPAnet, since the agency that funded it was named ARPA. By 1973 it was a modest success.

Wired News does a nice job of debunking Gore's claim.

The CNN interview in which Al Gore claimed that he created the Internet:

• CNN transcript of Gore interview
• RealAudio audio-video file of Gore CNN interview

Internet history FAQ pages:

• The History of the Internet
• Internet Society (ISOC) All About the Internet
• Evolution of the Internet

There is prior art up and down the Yin Yang on this. this document places the innovation of Kermit in 1981, while RFC 765, describing the FTP protocol, dates back to June 1980.

You also mentioned Unix to Unix Copy Protocol. According to this history of the internet, AT&T labs developed the UUCP suite in 1976.

Or then, the higher court may just be smoking something...

Sometimes, I think the only reason that drugs are illegal is to prevent us from understanding the system. :)

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Originally the "Internet" was an aggregate of mostly Academic and Military organizations. The NSF (National Science Foundation) provided the backbone support until 1994 I believe (I may be wrong). Basically that means that the NSF controlled it and the organizations who paid for the net were the organizations that used it, Academic and military. Along the way it grew into something that could financially benefit (or in other words be abused) commercial interests. The comercialization of the net has sprouted new technology (Voice over IP) and grew technology that was originally never intended for "internetworking" (Java).

The cook report has monitored the economic aspects of the net since 1994.

Here's something that gives you a techy rundown of the physical aspect of the net and how the powers that be controlled it up until 1996.

You've got to understand too that it would have never become this popular unless a browser, Mosiac, came to be. Mosiac turned into Netscape after some time. Without this tool, you'd be limited to gophering around places (which wasn't bad in and of it self).

I dunno man, I can't see where you are going with the CD/DVD stuff. Of course you don't own the material on it. Just like you don't own my home page -- you can view it all you want, but is it yours? Can you copy it and say it's yours? No. The fundamentals of the Internet have behaved exactly as they should given the current owners and the like. You still have the capability to put up a page and you still have the ability to play on a level playing field with anyone who decides to use the internet as a tool for whatever -- it's not just banner ads out there, it's the information. You watch TV shows right - not TV commercials.

And I think that Personal Area Networks will over take the Internet as most important technology in lives -- only cause it will be so god damn fun to interact with your environment. There I predict it.

Damn, people haven't even intergrated spell-checkers into HTML elements -- there's still a long way to go with the current set up.

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