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Internet2 Turns 10 and Upgrades
An anonymous reader writes "As an update to a previous story, Internet2 is celebrating its 10th anniversary in Chicago this week at it's fall conference. In addition, they're announcing the initial stages of their second significant network upgrade of their backbone network. Engineers are providing daily blog updates on the network install process as the old network is transitioned to the new. In addition to changing to a Level3-managed and Internet2-provisioned DWDM transport system for backbone capacity, I2 is implementing a new connection-oriented backbone network based on the Ciena CoreDirector platform in concert with the routed IP network."
Not to be confused with Web 2.0.
Yes, I was on the internet in the early 1980's, and I had websites up in 1991,
and wrote a interactive web course on cell biology in 1994.
So yes it was laughable that Al Gore took credit since we had the internet since
DARPA created it. And it was used by Universities and companies commonly since
at least in the 1970's. Many of us had BBS's, Ftp sites, Gopher sites, even before
NCSA produced the first HTTP based web server and before NCSA Mosaic's browser.
Gore did not apparently have a clue about the internet or its history or the uses
before he even was in any political office.