Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jack Strangio Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: The "Standards" Game Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2025 22:46:06 -0000 (UTC) Organization: North Star Horizon Builders Club Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <10a6nt3$1c65i$1@dont-email.me> Injection-Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2025 22:46:06 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ad1a43f99077fabcd8a4a93a11e18574"; logging-data="1665310"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18ENfKQ2WIMlgRp3XuJ45qXOvKR10eSmD8=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:Cui8N9u8/JkEW/r9X1fwQwy1/q8= X-Newsreader: TASS News Reader 3.7.2 jvs [linux] Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:74174 alt.comp.os.windows-11:24232 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 -- 90% of people who are bald still own a comb. They just can't part with it.