[SixClub] Kansas Phone Repair

[K8RI (Roger on six)]

On 1/21/2011 8:57 PM, Richard J. Fiero II W5TFW wrote:
> 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.

There's not a lot to it. The short version: The govt gave a lot of money 
to researchers and primarily universities who developed it.

73

Roger (K8RI)
>   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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