On 6/1/2011 9:03 PM, Olrik wrote:

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He's a bit less dense than Warhol, but how do these elementary school
failures manage to get access to the internet?

--
Choose heaven for climate, hell for society. - Mark Twain



Easy, the "internet" was ARPANET and funded by DARPA under the
department of defense when I worked for various contractors and lawrence
livermore labs., back in the late 70s and early 80s.

An interesting historical fact is, the first packets ever to be
exchanged over the ARPANET (later to become "the internet") happened in
late 1969.

It the 1980's it was beginning to be made available to certain uses in
the public sector, and was eventually transferred over into the main
public domain -- most here probably had their first exposure to it
sometime in the 1990s, it they were old enough then and had access to a
computer.

Although the original users of the internet (ARPANET) were government,
government contractors and academic institutions, more data is now
exchanged by these institutions using the net than ever before.

USENET was started up around 1979-80 based on UUCP (UNIX TO UNIX COPY
PROTOCOL) and came out of bell labs, my first exposure/use of it was in
1980.

You only got to use the internet when the people I worked for were
pretty much done with it and wanted it made available to you ... again,
you even have the basic facts of that WRONG! Back then, we didn't allow
people like you access!

I have watched all of this, I can tell you, just like slum neighborhoods
and ghettos are created when you allow certain classes of people to
enter them, so has gone USENET and the internet ...

ROFLOL ... what an idiot!

Regards,
JS