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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Wall Street Journal opinion piece mangles the
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum mailing list)
Mon Jul 23 14:42:53 2012
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Wall Street Journal opinion piece mangles the history of the Internet -- but WHY?
http://j.mp/MjeT8v (ars technica)
"It's an urban legend that the government launched the Internet,"
writes L. Gordon Crovitz in Monday's Wall Street Journal, launching
into just one of a myriad of problems with his short opinion piece.
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This Wall Street Journal "opinion piece" really mucked up big time.
And the sense of some associated political motivation is difficult to
ignore. The fact is, without ARPA/IPTO, there would not be an
Internet as we know it today. Period. Other networks would have very
likely developed of course, probably along the lines of various
pay-per-packet, walled garden modalities that the dominant ISPs seem
hell-bent at deploying today -- but not the end-to-end
ARPANET/Internet model that has been so very crucial to the spread and
wide availability of these technologies.
--Lauren--
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