[1039] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.e)
Mon Jul 22 19:25:22 1991
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 91 18:24:25 CDT
From: francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
To: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Joe Abernathy's message of Mon, 22 Jul 91 18:04:25 CDT <9107222304.AA01337@magic322.chron.com>
Reply-To: francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
> But the network itself sometimes becomes an issue where young
>people are concerned. Described by many of its users as an
>anarchic democracy,'' the Internet is a new means of
He's doing it again!
The Internet is not much of an anarchy. You're thinking of the
newsnet.
> Internet, for all its 20-year history, is just growing up.
Is this right? Is the net really that old?
(I know a UUCP-based mail net has been around for a long time, but
what the Internet & its predecessors?)
> (A gigabit is a measure of computer capacity. It represents
>the ability to transmit the equivalent of an Encyclopedia per
>second.)
Oh, really good definition. Maybe you could have said something like
"A gigabit is a transmission rate of a billion bits per second. A
billion bits is approximately the size of an enclycopaedia."
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