While financial barriers and the desire of local governments to control informations are obstacles to the widespread availabiltity of the internet; most people in the world will enthusiastically embrace it. A friend of mine travelled in Southeast Asia a few years ago and he recounted stories of going into a mud hut and finding computers there, it was an internet cafe. The only way for internet use to become a part of the culture is exposure to it. I heard that France had a widespread e-mail system since the early eighties. Perhaops there were questions whether the average american could accept such a technology.
I found this comment in a link from the ICANN site. It is a memorandum from Dr. Postel of the IANA.
ORG - This domain is intended as the miscellaneous TLD for organizations that didn't fit anywhere else. Some non-government organizations may fit here.
It seems that.org indicating a non-profit site is slightly inaccurate perception that has developed. One that loses relevance if browsers can perform searches from the URL Address.
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While financial barriers and the desire of local governments to control informations are obstacles to the widespread availabiltity of the internet; most people in the world will enthusiastically embrace it. A friend of mine travelled in Southeast Asia a few years ago and he recounted stories of going into a mud hut and finding computers there, it was an internet cafe. The only way for internet use to become a part of the culture is exposure to it. I heard that France had a widespread e-mail system since the early eighties. Perhaops there were questions whether the average american could accept such a technology.
ORG - This domain is intended as the miscellaneous TLD for organizations that didn't fit anywhere else. Some non-government organizations may fit here.
It seems that .org indicating a non-profit site is slightly inaccurate perception that has developed. One that loses relevance if browsers can perform searches from the URL Address.
GWB will probably listen to Greenspan even more than Bubba did because of his second-class mind but first class temperment.