Recovering from yesterday...
Jul. 19th, 2012 06:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpToday was a pretty hard day for me, mentally, because yesterday was going to be a hard act to follow, from the perspective of work productivity.
On the other hand, yesterday was physically a hard day, because I put in a whole lot of hours to, um, produce that productivity.
Which is ironic, because as of right now, I am little closer to where I need to be next Wednesday, unless I light a fire under my butt, except that there's one there already.
Does any of that make sense?
* * * In other news, I was a bit dismayed to hear the President put forth the ridiculous proposition—among others—that
What we know today as the Internet started out as a project of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and its purpose was to engage computer scientists in building a network that would be so robust in its architecture, that it could survive a Soviet first nuclear strike and retain sufficient connectivity to enable the United States to retaliate in kind. Basically, "government research" created the Internet to defend the United States.
I remember when the only high-level domains on DARPAnet were .mil, .edu, and .com (for defense contractors). Access to the net was strictly controlled (because, after all, it was a military project), but eventually, a number of efforts undertaken internally at universities (e.g., gofer) and not officially sanctioned by the DoD lived to see the light of day over the network and momentum began to grow to put the network to other uses, eventually snowballing into what we today know as the Internet.
So while the original idea may have been the result of a government RFP, the result—today's largely freewheeling, free-as-in-speech Internet—is certainly not the result of government planning of any sort (as witness the numerous, repeated, and often successful efforts by governments around the world to control their citizens' use of the Internet). Companies started to make money off the Internet because it was there, not in response to some kind of master government plan.
Had there been such a plan, it's pretty plain that the result would have resembled the Postal Service more than the Web.
Cheers...
On the other hand, yesterday was physically a hard day, because I put in a whole lot of hours to, um, produce that productivity.
Which is ironic, because as of right now, I am little closer to where I need to be next Wednesday, unless I light a fire under my butt, except that there's one there already.
Does any of that make sense?
Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.Whoever wrote that for the President is either ill-informed or intended to mislead.
What we know today as the Internet started out as a project of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and its purpose was to engage computer scientists in building a network that would be so robust in its architecture, that it could survive a Soviet first nuclear strike and retain sufficient connectivity to enable the United States to retaliate in kind. Basically, "government research" created the Internet to defend the United States.
I remember when the only high-level domains on DARPAnet were .mil, .edu, and .com (for defense contractors). Access to the net was strictly controlled (because, after all, it was a military project), but eventually, a number of efforts undertaken internally at universities (e.g., gofer) and not officially sanctioned by the DoD lived to see the light of day over the network and momentum began to grow to put the network to other uses, eventually snowballing into what we today know as the Internet.
So while the original idea may have been the result of a government RFP, the result—today's largely freewheeling, free-as-in-speech Internet—is certainly not the result of government planning of any sort (as witness the numerous, repeated, and often successful efforts by governments around the world to control their citizens' use of the Internet). Companies started to make money off the Internet because it was there, not in response to some kind of master government plan.
Had there been such a plan, it's pretty plain that the result would have resembled the Postal Service more than the Web.
Cheers...
