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      12 days ago

      You can’t expect me not to reinvent the wheel.

      As we post on Lemmy, which is a reinvention of a reinvention of a reinvention of Usenet from 1979.

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          Ok, rant time!!!

          I worked for Vint Cerf back in the early 90’s. I became aware of the politics around it when Al Gore pushed for funding so the Internet could grow into something bigger than a University/Military communication system. Rush Limbaugh was on the radio daily railing against Al Gore’s Boondoggle. Clinton/Gore secured funding and the Internet exploded in use.

          During the 1999 Presidential election, Republicans took Al Gore’s greatest political accomplishment, getting Congress to fund the creation of the Internet, and made it a joke.

          Vint Cerf wrote this letter as a result:

          https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~fessler/misc/funny/gore,net.txt