[SixClub] Kansas Phone Repair

Fri Jan 21 20:57:09 EST 2011

Roger, why not be a Good Chap and give us all YOUR version of were the 
internet came from, I should think we shall all find this entertaining if 
not enlightening.

 I have heard so MANY versions of where it all came from I have had to put 
them in a 5 subject notebook.

         Joey
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "K8RI (Roger on six)" <50MHz at rogerhalstead.com>
To: <sixclub at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: [SixClub] Kansas Phone Repair

> On 1/20/2011 11:37 PM, Trent Fleming wrote:
>> Same representative from our great state who, about 6 months ago, 
>> announced
>> that he was opposed to war in all forms . . . and stated, on national TV,
>> that had we left Hitler alone, he probably would have eventually stopped 
>> all
>> the killing "on his own"
>>
>> And this young man is Jewish . . .
>>
>> And don't forget, Gore also invented the Internet!
> I'm not one of Gore's supporters, but computers are my profession, CS is
> my degreed field, and that statement has always bothered me.
>
> Actually the press is completely responsible for that statement.  It was
> a misquote by the press taking "responsible for, or Created",
> substituting  the word "invented", and then running with it.
> As he was chief nerd, head of, and cheerleader for the group providing
> the money for the development  he was responsible for...He never claimed
> he invented it. Even several of the big names of the people who did the
> work give him credit for being responsible.   Check Snopes.
> http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
>
> 73
>
> Roger (K8RI)
>
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