>From: Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com>
> >Legislation introduced in October by Senator Albert Gore, Democrat
>>of Tennessee, included initial financing for development and
>>construction of a National Research Network. Backers of the
>>measure say that Federal financing for the project is necessary to
>>develop the technology and convince industry that vastly speedier
>>computer networks are commercially viable.
>
>Yes, the "Information Superhighway" it was never built.
Al Gore's National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 1986
authorized the National Science Foundation to create NSFNET. Ever
hear of it? NSF replaced the military Arpanet as the managers of the
Internet. This brought the Internet out of the military realm.
The National Science Foundation connected universities together.
They linked in Canada and then other countries. They linked in
e-mail first, then direct network access for UUnet, CompuServe, MCI
Mail, The Well, and other network providers. The separate networks
were first connected together by NSF funding. NSF removed commercial
restrictions and then allowed ISP dial-access from private homes.
NSF established the InterNIC to manage the network. The upgrade to
56K backbone was funded by NSF. The upgrade to T1 backbone was
funded by NSF.
Exactly what exact part of this "Information Superhighway" do you
claim was never built?
Read some selected Internet history from Hobb's Internet Timeline at
<http://info.isoc.org/guest/zakon/Internet/History/HIT.html>:
1969 ARPANET commissioned by DoD
1981 National Science Foundation funds CSNET for researchers
1983 CSNET/ARPANET gateway established to form first "inter-network"
1984 Number of Internet hosts reaches 1000
1986 AL GORE'S NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION AUTHORIZATION ACT
1986 NSFNET created with 56K links
1987 Number of Internet hosts reaches 10,000
1988 AL GORE'S NATIONAL HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY ACT
1988 NSFNET upgraded to T1 lines
1989 Number of Internet hosts reaches 100,000
1990 ARPANET shuts down
1990 Canada Net connects to NSFNET
1991 AL GORE'S US HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING ACT
1991 NSFNET removes commercial restrictions from Internet
1992 Number of Internet hosts reaches 1,000,000
1993 InterNIC created by NSF to provide Internet Services
1995 NSF creates new NSFNET just for research, leaving original
NSFNET infrastructure in place as Internet backbone
-- Harvey Newstrom <HarveyNewstrom.com>
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