Posted on 09/14/2004 11:47:46 PM PDT by goldstategop
bvw:
I was just kidding. However, it seems clear to me that microprocessor development rates led to the explosive growth of the Internet.
BTW: you mention ARPANET - are you familiar with PLATO, sort of a precursor to the internet at the University of Illinois UC in the late 60s early 70s?
The internet is also very much a child of the A-bomb. Why?
Because the concept of a non-centralized, distrubuted, automatically self-correcting and re-routing network was in defensive preparation to nuke attack.
The "name" blogs are beginning to get MSM disease.
FR doesn't count. A story's not a story until a "name" blog finds it. As if FR was just a field full of crops to harvest.
What questions? He's a phony, he confessed. Game over, and thanks for playing.
Don't miss tonight's edition of 60 Minutes II where The Dan interviews Jerry Killian by Ouija Board and puts this controversy to rest.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
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