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Who Really Invented the Internet?
jaymzter writes "The Wall Street Journal is running an article that it claims seeks to dispel an urban legend about the internet: 'The creation of the Arpanet was not motivated by considerations of war. The Arpanet was not an Internet.' The position of the piece is that it was Xerox's contribution of Ethernet that enabled the global series of tubes we know and love today, and what's interesting is that the former head of DARPA supports this claim."
You mean it wasn't Al Gore?
"Why exactly do we need to pay continual homage to Xerox?"
In this case, it's because Barack HUSSEIN Obama (D-Kenya) gave credit for the Internet to the gov't. So OF COURSE the Wall Street Journal has to contradict that claim because Barack HUSSEIN Obama can't be right about anything ever-- especially when it comes to claims that the gov't did something good.
If Obama said the sky was blue, the WSJ would undoubtedly publish a story questioning it. Why, just the other night the sky was pitch black! Is there nothing Obama won't lie to the American people about?
I thought this was solved years ago when we all got together and gave Al Gore the credit?
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Newton invented the outhouse (let's face it, outhouses would suck without gravity)
Yeah, I guess they would have to, wouldn't they?
- Newton invented the outhouse (let's face it, outhouses would suck without gravity)
Outhouses do suck without gravity.
the growth in cynicism and rebellion has not been without cause
They invented the photocopier, basicly the first betaversion of filesharing, which is directly responsible for the trillinons of dollars the music industry! SO SUE THEM!
Where may I find this pious anthropomorphic market you speak of?
He didn't look it up because looking things up like that is socialistic. True free market conservatives and libertarians like us go with our guts, we don't need "facts" and "reality" to intrude on what we know to be REAL. You simply don't get it because you are living in an ivory tower, with your academic worshipping of the material world instead of the rich mental, inner world that we smarter people have.
how did this turn political?
You must be new here...
You were critically hit for no damage. The bruise will look nice, and maybe the scars will make good party talk.
Score 5 funny, Score 100000 true. I think Obama should just start reading from the Republican Party Platform instead of giving speeches. "Read my lips, no new taxes" should be his slogan. The right wing would suddenly be in favor of new taxes and gun control.
No sigs in BETA. Beta SUCKS.
Funny read
The male kind is a plastic funnel 2 to 3 inches in width and about 4 inches deep. A male astronaut would urinate directly into the funnel. He would have to keep 2 to 3 inches away to not get sucked into the funnel.
1) I'm sure some astronauts had to keep farther away from it than others
2) I'm thinking that on really long missions getting sucked into the funnel might be advantageous... or not.
The solid waste collection bag is a detachable bag that is made of a special fabric that lets gas but not liquid or solid through. This allows the fan at the back of the vacuum chamber to pull the waste into the bag. When the astronaut is done using it, he/she twists their bag and places it in a waste storage drawer.
Sounds like space is absolutely not the place for Big Al after hitting the Golden Corral.
And just by coincidence, they were the 2 worst presidents in US history.
1) Wilson
2) Obama
3) Buchanan
I believe you meant to say, "these are the 2 worst presidents at math."