News Flash! Al Gore Did Not Invent the Internet!

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[NA4BH]

:lies: :rofl:

[KG4CGC]

That's right. "You did not build that". Xerox did.

Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444464304577539063008406518.html)

According to Limbaugh today, El-Fatso himself invented the internet and MADE it important.

[ab1ga]

Goodness, not this again.

Well, they did get one thing right. Survivability was not in fact the ARPA objective, but interoperability.
But the first internet wasn't based on Ethernet.
And although Robert Metcalfe was working at PARC at the time, his fascination (obsession) with the ARPAnet began years earlier.

And the "killer app" which fueled the Internet explosion? Online porn.

WSJ: another paper I don't have to worry about not reading anymore.

[NQ6U]

And, of course, Al Gore never claimed he "invented" the Internet. He can take some credit for making sure it got funded in its infancy, though.

[WØTKX]

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[ab1ga]

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I was wondering where my antenna switch box went!

73,

[ab1ga]

And, of course, Al Gore never claimed he "invented" the Internet. He can take some credit for making sure it got funded in its infancy, though.

True, but convincing people of that isn't easy; better practice by shoveling against the tide first.

73,

[kf0rt]

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Man, used to pull a LOT of RG-62.

[KB3LAZ]

I invented it, now where is my royalty check?

[N2CHX]

Man, used to pull a LOT of RG-62.

Hahaha! Reminds me of when I installed one of the first AudioVault broadcast automation systems at a station in Rochester back in 1995. The entire network, including the link to the traffic and billing office, was over coax. One day I was chatting with one of the owners about it and he asked "what is this for?" as he popped the terminator off the network card on the machine in the T&B office, which promptly took the station off the air. Them's were the days!

[W3WN]

Hahaha! Reminds me of when I installed one of the first AudioVault broadcast automation systems at a station in Rochester back in 1995. The entire network, including the link to the traffic and billing office, was over coax. One day I was chatting with one of the owners about it and he asked "what is this for?" as he popped the terminator off the network card on the machine in the T&B office, which promptly took the station off the air. Them's were the days!A friend of mine was the CE for one of the local FM stations (he's still there, but it's now part of conglomarate, so I don't know where he stands in the food chain today, but I digress). Quite a few years back, he mentions that they're having tremendous interference problems with the "new" station LAN for the office staff.

At the time, the FM studio & offices were housed in the same building as the transmitter, and the transmitter antenna was right on top of them. Anyone want to guess what the problem was?

Not enough data yet? (Kelli probably already figured it out) Well, this was back when 10 Base T was the current "standard" Ethernet, 100 Base T wasn't widespread yet.

Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Yup... the 10 Base T cables were acting as an antenna & shunting RF into the network.

My suggestion? Since all of the 3Com cards in the station PC's were dual connector, switch to RG-8X and make it a 10 Base 2 network instead.

Amazing what happens when you use shielded cable in an RF intense environment.

(They don't have that problem today, but that's because the studios & offices are now consolidated elsewhere with the other local stations the conglom own, several miles away in a nice tidy, sterile, professional office building.)

[WX7P]

True, but convincing people of that isn't easy; better practice by shoveling against the tide first.

73,

Just goes to show you that many people are just plain fucking stupid. The whole "Al Gore invented the internet" lie was cooked up and disseminated by that piece of shit Ann Coulter.

[kf0rt]

Hahaha! Reminds me of when I installed one of the first AudioVault broadcast automation systems at a station in Rochester back in 1995. The entire network, including the link to the traffic and billing office, was over coax. One day I was chatting with one of the owners about it and he asked "what is this for?" as he popped the terminator off the network card on the machine in the T&B office, which promptly took the station off the air. Them's were the days!

Yup, seen that happen before. Remember passive hubs?

That's some really old shit. I remember working on and using Arcnet in the mid-80's (industrial app). SMC made an S-100 board for it and I used to buy case lots of them for $400 a board.

Them's WERE the days! :rofl:

[KG4NEL]

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Where do you put the token in for the token-ring? :chin::mrgreen: