From: Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com>
>>Brian D Williams <talon57@well.com> wrote,
>>Al Gore's National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 1986?
>>Gee that's odd Harvey, a Google search turned up a wealth of
>>information on this act, but not one mention of Al Gore.
>Try harder. The references I gave came from a Google search.
>I posted the newspaper articles that give Al Gore credit for this
>bill. Did you not read my entire post?
I read your post, every word, but it's clear you're ignoring mine.
The fact is that an extremely well done, and highly acclaimed,
history on the origins of the Internet has already been done. As I
already pointed out it was accomplished in 1996 and is called
"Where Wizards Stay up Late: The origins of the Internet. Your pal
Al Gore has exactly one line in the book, where they say he was
invited to the 25 anniversary party for his interest in the
"Information Superhighway" not the Internet, but "The Information
Superhighway". If you read carefully it also had alot to do with
the fact that BBN was having problems with the government at the
time.
I don't accept you're version and neither does anyone else who was
there. The fact is that all during the eighties and nineties there
were rival groups, the Internet, and the Information superhighway
crowd. Al Gore backed the loser, now he's trying to re-write
history, and so are you.
That's right, I was there, I read everything that came out during
the whole period on the subject, and watched Al Gore fumbling along
the whole time. I've been on the Internet since administrators used
to ask you to keep off their systems during the day, so we accessed
Europe during the normal nighttime there. I remember spending alot
of time at the site at CERN and playing with an interesting text
based system the creator was calling the world wide web. I still
have the E-mail I got back from him thanking me for my comments and
telling me they were working on a GUI for it, and after that he
hoped it would really take off... Need I even bother mentioning his
name?
So since we're the only ones discussing this, and neither of us is
going to listen to the other, I'm dropping this, confidant a future
web search by anybody interested will point them to vital evidence.
Brian
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