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Re: Time for a real Internet highway (?)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat Oct 15 18:17:33 2005

From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:14:51 -1000
To: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


> The internet is global and without boundries.  The US
> highway system is domestic with boundries.

the history of the interstate bill is quite interesting.
among other things, it killed the trains, contributed to
the degredation of the inner cities, ...  and guess which
industries lobbied it through.

and why does oahu have interstate highways, anyway?

randy


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