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From: sigma@pawl.rpi.edu (Kevin J Martin)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Internet: The origins
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Date: 15 Oct 90 04:49:10 GMT
References: <1990Oct14.055739.7971@nmt.edu> <1990Oct14.191149.29927@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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gsh7w@astsun.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy) writes:
>In article <1990Oct14.055739.7971@nmt.edu> pefsnsr@jupiter.nmt.edu (Paul Ford) writes:
>#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?

>It is true that the same person who wrote the (factually innaccurate)
>Houston Chronicle article also claims that the change in
>administration is due to his article.

>I think that he overestimates his importance.

I think he's worth thumbing our collective noses at.  He can be the one who
IBM sends to the hundreds/thousands of universities and a wide variety of
private institutions to inform them of how IBM is going to commandeer their
Internet.

As for origins, I've heard some vague gospel about Duke University in North
Carolina.  And of course ARPAnet has been around a while, right?  Someone
let us know - it's definitely folklore.

-- 
Kevin Martin
sigma@rpi.edu