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Re: "Justice Probes eBay for Antitrust"
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Sun, 6 Feb 2000 15:16:04 GMT
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"Susan Olson" <so0s@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> We agree to disagree on this one to some extent - somedays I wonder what • would
> happen if the NSF (a government agency) hadn't decided to allow ecommerce • to be
> born by just keeping the 'net as a big government research project into • new
> means of communication. If you want to take it off topic ok by me, but • I've said
> my peace.
Far be it from me to get in the middle of this one, law was about as far
from my college major as you can get. But I do have to point out one thing:
the NSF(??? perhaps you mean NSA) had/has very little to do with the
Internet. The whole thing started as a research project by the Department
of Defense to look into decentralizing computer networks to protect against
nuclear attack. The project was undertaken by DOD's Advanced Research
Projects Agency, hence the early name for the network, the ARPANET. So at
least the Cold War was good for one thing, it created the Internet. : )
--
William A. Swanberg
CPT, SC
Commander, 229th Signal Company (TACSAT)
swanberg@msn.com
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| William A. Swanberg wrote in message ... (...) thing: (...) If the DOD hadn't allowed the internet to expand beyond the government, it would have just delayed the internet for a while. By the time the internet started to be useful, Usenet was (...) (25 years ago, 7-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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