On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 07:17:35AM -0500, Michael Yanowitz wrote:
> Can someone please tell me what Gore's role was in
> inventing the internet. (Please include all the Gory details
Al Gore's main contribution was as sponser of the National Research
and Educational Networking ACT (NREN) in 1989 - I'm not really sure
of the exact name but you can look it up.
On second thought, judging from the comments in this thread research
and looking things up is unlikely so I went to http://thomas.loc.gov
and looked through the info in the Congressional Record for 1989-90
(same year Tim Berners-Lee was developing http), when he was a senator
from Tennessee to see what his legislation's goals were. Below is what
I pasted in from that:
TITLE II--NATIONAL RESEARCH AND EDUCATION NETWORK
Sec. 201. The National Science Foundation shall, in cooperation with the Department of
Defense, the Department of Energy, the Department of Commerce, the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, and other appropriate agencies, provide for the
establishment of a national multi-gigabit-per-second research and education computer
network by 1996, to be known as the National Research and Education Network, which
shall--
(1) link government, industry, and the education community;
(2) provide computer users with access to supercomputers, computer data bases, and
other research facilities;
(3) provide users of libraries and other educational institutions with access to the
Network and information resources;
(4) be developed in close cooperation with the computer, telecommunications, and
information industry;
(5) be designed and developed with the advice of potential users in government,
industry, and the higher education community;
(6) be established in a manner which fosters and maintains competition and private
sector investment in high speed data networking within the telecommunications
industry;
(7) where technically feasible, have accounting mechanisms which allow, where
appropriate, users or groups of users to be charged for their usage of the Network and
copyrighted materials available over the Network; and
(8) be phased out when commercial networks can meet the networking needs of American
researchers.
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Josh Kuperman
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