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Originally Posted by dc_dux
Mike....just for the record:
The High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (HPCA) was a bill created and introduced by then Senator Al Gore (it was thus referred to as the Gore Bill). It was passed on 09 December, 1991.
This bill led to the development of the National Information Infrastructure (the so-called "information superhighway"), the National Research and Education Network, the High-Performance Computing and Communications Initiative (an off-shoot of the HPCA), Mosaic (the first web browser), and the creation of a high-speed fiber optic network that, when utilized, would help stimulate the economy.
http://www.answers.com/topic/high-pe...on-act-of-1991
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DC, sure it would have. Because private investing is what would have propeled the internet to what it is today. Who knows it might have been a whole lot better if the Gorebill didnt interfere with it.
And this is what this forum has basicly become, nitpicking, and I'll show you why I believe this, my response to your Al Gore timeline DC will be this timeline
which clearly shows the internet well upon its way long before Gore "invented it"
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January 1986Q-Link has 10,000 users.
1987 Sears and IBM announce the name of their new online service Prodigy.
1987 Apple gives Case the go-ahead on what would be called AppleLink personal edition. More information on AppleLink.
1988 AppleLink personal edition debuts.
August 1988 PC-Link is launched. More info on PC-Link
1989 After Quantum decides to leave Apple. Apple pays $2.5 million for Quantum to relinquish rights to the Apple logo.
1989 Elwood Edwards records, "Welcome", "You've got mail", "File's done", and "Goodbye."
1989 CompuServe acquires The Source.
October 2, 1989 AppleLink changes name to America Online a service offered through Quantum.
1990 Promenade is launched for the IBM PS/1. More info on Promenade
1991 Unofficial talks go on with CompuServe regarding a possible purchase of Quantum. Case and other staff members opposed the purchase citing that the Apple service was doing well and they were preparing to launch a PC version of AOL. The offer was $50 million and was turned down
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Originally Posted by roachboy
is there any real need for things to devolve back to the hoary old days of the 2000 presidential campaign? i understand that the republicans did much better in opposition than they have since 2000, so maybe there's a bit of nostalgia in it--but it is fucking tedious. it is self-evident to anyone who bothered then to look what gore meant by that remark, which the cretinocracy of conservativeland turned into some element of their GroupHate approach to identity politics.
but this is not 2000. it is 2007. it is now abundantly clear what the implications of conservativeland in 2000 were when it came to exercising power. and it is obvious that conservativeland itself is just a tired rickety old amusement park, kind of like some backwater copy of coney island---and it is also clear that the right is going to have to rebuild from the fiasco that the bush years have been in much the same way (though perhaps not in the same direction) as the rest of us will.
i guess all that is just tought to face fro some of the faithful on the order of reconmike. kinda in the way that iraq is for the bush administration and the 20% of the population that still supports them must be.
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When did I bring up the 2000 election Roach? Can ya quote it for me?
And just to set the record strait, I dont visit conservativeland, never been there, dont plan on it.
I fancy myself a libertarian, a women should have the right to rip a fetus from her body,
There should be same sex marriages, hell someone should be able to marry livestock for all I care.
People should take responsibility for their own stupidity, like taking a bath with a blow drier, they shouldn't have to put a warning label on it saying "do not use in bath" these people should be weeded out according to Darwin's law.
Bible thumpers should keep their morals and opinions to themselves, and not dictate to me how I should live my life or where I'm going when it is over.
Just because I favored this war, and still support winning it, becuase losing will be very ugly later, does not mean I live in conservitiveland.
The only thing I have ever posted about that remotely resembles conservitive
leanings is this war.