Why not ask the "Inventor of the Internet" (Al Gore) to sponsor an Internet Day bill
in the senate? If it catches on here, perhaps other countries would also follow
suit... Or perhaps Finland or Sweden should lead the way since they are debatably the
"most connected" countries on earth?
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> From: Pete Loshin[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 4:20 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: a moment of silence
>
> At 11:04 AM 10/7/99 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >Having known Jon pretty well, I doubt that he would have wanted things to
> >shut down. But he would have liked the idea of (1) putting a little
> >humor into our Internet work, (2) striving harder to be precise and
> >logical in what we do, and (3) thinking a bit about how to be kind to
> >other people, local and remote.
>
> I'm totally serious about this, even though it may seem flip, but why not
> start celebrating his life with a holiday on his birthday? The three items
> that Bob note here seem particularly worthy of celebration, and October 16
> is too close to Columbus Day. Plus, holidays are more popular; plus
> holidays usually come on the birthday not death day. And August 6 is just
> far enough away from July 4 and Labor Day. (Sorry about all the US-centric
> dates here.)
>
> Call it Internet Day. Start a tradition by giving your oldest usable
> computer to someone who doesn't have one but would like one, or setting up
> a modem, or installing networking software, or stuff like that. I'm sure
> there's plenty of other Internet-specific customs that be dreamed up
> (games, special foods, etc.) not to mention making that a special day for
> thinking about public service computing as well as celebrating clarity of
> thought.
>
> In any case, a holiday like that seems to me far more productive than a
> moment of silence could be.
>
> my $0.02
> -pl
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