well, actually the internet WAS in fact a DOD thing. I remember when we first started using it; I was a Captain in the Army in the early 80s. It was very clunky and weird to use
And you can say the DOD was heavily involved in creating the computer itself
But, it was private individuals who made it small enough and powerful enough and fast enought so that you could view porn at home
Read the article, it really was Bush’s fault!
But full credit goes to the company where Mr. Taylor worked after leaving ARPA: Xerox. It was at the Xerox PARC labs in Silicon Valley in the 1970s that the Ethernet was developed to link different computer networks. Researchers there also developed the first personal computer (the Xerox Alto) and the graphical user interface that still drives computer usage today.This is my understanding of it. I've know about this from other sources for decades.
AutoVON?
“In the early 80’s”
Yep, I remember that time. I built my first PC in 1982.
Ran with some really great techs then. Most of them worked for the labs near where I lived in NM.
DARPA, wasn’t it?
Do you remember when the internet community chastised a user for trying to sell his computer or something in his messages? The meme back then was powerful: The internet will never be used for commerce of any kind.
:-P
Did you read the article?
The '70's is way before your '80's.
I was using public internet in the '80's. I certainly wouldn't give the DOD the credit.
They speak of the world wide web early on, but as I recall the eb came about after the development of the magellen browser that fully enabled HTML and the world wide web.
The Magellan and subsequent Netscape browsers were certainly not government developed so the Messianic claim is yet another indication of his shallow education.
I remember it also, but I wouldn’t say it was a ‘government’ thing per se. The government PAID for high speed comm backbones for university data transfer between researchers.
If I recall correctly, it was I think an MIT researcher who invented the HTML protocol that facilititated data transfer more easily. I don’t remember the name, but it was his protocol that became the ‘internet’.
No, that was milnet, carried over arpanet.
Politicians have this attitude that ‘if they allowed us to do something then they must have had something to do with it’.
Exactly correct! The DOD created it for military use and it warped into commercial use.
I don’t know the specifics, but I can guess that contracts with the DOD were given access to the “internet” and thus the idea might have been born that it would be good for all commercial business. If anybody knows the real story - please post it so we can all be informed.
It’s sure been a help to me .. I broke my ankles a couple of years ago, and walking through stores and standing in line is not very easy to accomplish. My solution: I get on the internet and order what I need and have it delivered.
I too remember those days, can you say 300 baud???
I had a friend who joined the Air Force in the late 70s. He learned how to be a key punch operator. Haven’t seen or thought of him for years, but that was HiTech back in the day...lol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_programming_in_the_punched_card_era