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Erm, it's most certainly a fact. Government funded projects produced the Internet, while commercial companies were producing centralized, circuit switched netwo
by poet 16y ago
Erm, it's most certainly a fact. Government funded projects produced the Internet, while commercial companies were producing centralized, circuit switched networks. It's self evident that no one else was doing it; every single commercial company in the world at the time was pursuing a drastically different design philosophy (the reason being that circuit switched networks were making money).
As an aside, it's not really worth joining the conversation if all you have to offer are one-line platitudes. I'd be interested in some evidence supporting your point of view, but you haven't bothered to provide any whatsoever.
- zaphar 16y agoI was typing it on my mobile phone. Which is not a good enough excuse I know but it's the only excuse I have. Also I wasn't disputing whether Government funding produced the internet. What I disagreed with was the notion that the Internet deserved to be produced and therefore the Government was beholden to fund it. Such a discussion wouldn't be a debate that lent itself to the use of evidence for claims since its primarily a philosophical one.
- borism 16y ago> What I disagreed with was the notion that the Internet deserved to be produced quite pointless argument to have on the Internet
- WalterBright 16y agoCheck out FidoNet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet, a hobbyist produced global decentralized fault tolerant network, controlled by nobody. If the internet never existed, it's quite probable FidoNet would have grown up and fit into the same ecological niche.
- chopsueyar 16y agoFidonet is a network like bittorrent is a network. I think you are getting downvoted because of the hardware/software distinction, or lack thereof.
- WalterBright 16y agoThe internet used to run over the phone lines, too. It's a protocol.