[4] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
This guy is serious ( I assume) . The misinformation is impressive -- from comp.misc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David J. Farber)
Sun Oct 14 08:19:55 1990
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 90 05:41:59 EDT
From: farber@central.cis.upenn.edu (David J. Farber)
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I was wondering if any knowledgeable person out there could
inform me about a couple of things:
(1) when was Internet created and by whom?
and,
(2) what was the oiginal intended purpose of the network?
The reason I ask is that I recently read that the
administration of Internet was going to be taken over by IBM and
another company who's name I forget at the moment. I beleive that
this adminstrative change was due to some investigations, by the
Houston Chronicle, into the misuse of Internet. BTW, does anyone know
whether this is true or not?
Scooter
