From: George Free <gfree-AT-linux.ca>
Subject: Re: Multiple Postings
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 22:38:57 -0500


On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Ania Lian wrote:

> 
> > It was the computer
> > scientists who developed the internet and the web for sharing
> > resources and facilitating collaborative research and exchange.
> 
> for the purpose of collaboration for the sake of army.
> 

This half- (or quarter) truth is often used to discredit the new communications
technologies in the eyes of intellectuals. See 

http://www.isoc.org/internet-history/brief.html

for a good account of the origins of the Internet.

George

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