Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: The "Standards" Game Date: 15 Sep 2025 01:02:49 GMT Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <10a6nt3$1c65i$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net HU0ExEIARqofW3xj7tyExw62MyZtFVspp77Ur25YhoexU4R3av Cancel-Lock: sha1:XLUUOgnpUSwZ6OlOjDff85TSB4s= sha256:QH8G+rh6zTtm3L+68szWKt4dAqiOLe6iDcwVdQkNCzY= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:74182 alt.comp.os.windows-11:24240 On Sun, 14 Sep 2025 22:46:06 -0000 (UTC), Jack Strangio wrote: > Bobbie Sellers writes: >> >> Al Gore helped pass the bills that paid those academics and >> technologists who were developing the Arpanet that became the public >> Internet. With the addition of > > Al Gore was very much a 'Johnny Come Lately' with respect to the > Internet. > > The Internet was up and running almost 20 years befoire Gore came on to > the scene. > > Even in a quiet backwater like Australia, I was using the (non-WWW) > internet about a decade before Gore became 'famous for the Internet'. > > Jack Disclaimer: I think Gore is a flaming asshole and is one of the reasons I voted for Bush the Dumber. However https://www.congress.gov/bill/99th-congress/senate-bill/2594 S.2594 - Supercomputer Network Study Act of 1986 Sponsor: Sen. Gore, Albert, Jr. [D-TN] (Introduced 06/24/1986) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation_Network