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John S. Dyson  
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 More options Sep 21 2000, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers, talk.politics.misc, alt.os.linux
From: t...@y1.jdyson.net (John S. Dyson)
Date: 2000/09/21
Subject: Re: Is Al Gore The Father of the Internet?^
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In article <8qd45u$ar...@bob.news.rcn.net>,
        jmfbah...@aol.com writes:

>>If you can name a computer network that existed before
>>February 1966, I invite you to do so. Please document.

> I hadn't met a computer then.  My first was in 68.  If
> his project was so good in '66, then what did JMF do
> when DEC did all kinds of hard/software development
> in 1970?  My point is that network development wasn't
> so single threaded as you and others seem to portray.  

Few innovations are created in a vacuum. Often, very
similar inventions are created simultaneously in various
places in the world.  Also, even more disgusting, a
person with the best spin gets the credit for work
that is actually done by another person.  Mr Edison,
being a genius, still had a tendancy to do more than
get ownership of a patent where significant work was done
by others, but got authorship also.  That is generally
different than today's practice, but his spin machine
was very effective.

A horrible travesty would be for a non-technical political
person to get spun into the creator of the internet.  Without
stopping the nonsense immediately, Al would have been
commonly called the creator of the internet, and even
his advocates should have problems sleeping at night with
that mis-info.  Alas, we are used to liars, so maybe
it won't bother anyone anymore -- our standards are sooo
very low.

John


 
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