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« Reply #15 on: June 29, 2004, 07:15:00 AM »
The beginnings: ARPANET


In 1957, the U.S. government formed the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), a segment of the Department of Defense charged with ensuring U.S. leadership in science and technology with military applications. In 1969, ARPA established ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet.

Research and education

ARPANET was a network that connected major computers at the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of California at Santa Barbara, Stanford Research Institute, and the University of Utah. Within a couple of years, several other educational and research institutions joined the network.

In response to the threat of nuclear attack, ARPANET was designed to allow continued communication if one or more sites were destroyed. Unlike today, when millions of people have access to the Internet from home, work, or their public library, ARPANET served only computer professionals, engineers, and scientists who knew their way around its complex workings.

Evolution

Throughout the 1970s, developers created the protocols used to transfer information over the Internet. By the early 1980s, Usenet newsgroups and electronic mail had been born. Most users were affiliated with universities, although libraries began to connect their catalogs to the Internet, too. During the late 1980s, developers created indices, such as Archie and the Wide Area Information Server (WAIS), to keep track of the information on the Internet. To give users a friendly, easy-to-use interface to work with, the University of Minnesota created its Gopher, a simple menu system for accessing files, in 1991.

Sites to visit
A Brief History of the Internet¡ªmore details from the Internet Society
Hobbes' Internet Timeline
 
 
 

Tim Berners-Lee: Father of the Web


The World Wide Web came into being in 1991, thanks to developer Tim Berners-Lee and others at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, also known as Conseil EuropÒûne pour la Recherche Nuclî?re (CERN). The CERN team created the protocol based on hypertext that makes it possible to connect content on the Web with hyperlinks. Berners-Lee now directs the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a group of industry and university representatives that oversees the standards of Web technology.

Early on, the Internet was limited to noncommercial uses because its backbone was provided largely by the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the U.S. Department of Energy, and funding came from the government. But as independent networks began to spring up, users could access commercial Web sites without using the government-funded network. By the end of 1992, the first commercial online service provider, Delphi, offered full Internet access to its subscribers, and several other providers followed.

In June 1993, the Web boasted just 130 sites. By a year later, the number had risen to nearly 3,000. As of April 1998, there were more than 2.2 million sites on the Web.
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« Reply #16 on: June 29, 2004, 05:12:00 PM »
What a stuck-up prude What the hell is wrong with getting tatoos and peircings? I think they are away of being who you are, and not conforming with the rest of the world. Done with taste they look good and can be very sexy... You need to learn to open your mind, and not be so snobby and rude.  :roll:
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« Reply #17 on: June 29, 2004, 07:05:00 PM »
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« Reply #18 on: June 29, 2004, 07:07:00 PM »
I got hella tats n a nice butt does that make me a menace?  Even people's momma's love my cheeky cheeks lol. oh yeah I personally created 12 jobs here in western mass :lol: I should run for prez.
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« Reply #19 on: June 29, 2004, 09:22:00 PM »
Another attack from the ghosts.

Ignore the anons who have nothing nice to say.

To the Antigen:

Theres got to be some way to accomidate civil people here while discouraging random disgusting, or otherwise undesirable comments from the anon peanut gallery. Wasnt there a feature here that showed the IP number of all posters?

That would be a good start thinking theres not likely a way to convince you to require registration.

People should be required to register, at least an alias which is STILL anon. The ability to just post and clic is too easy for the assholes whos only intent is to disrupt the flow here, and ridecule or flame anyone they please. Theres NO good reason to allow this. The fredom of speech doesnt apply. Why? Because the freedom of speech was not designed to remove accountability for WHAT you say!



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P.S. I'd "register" I'd even do it with my own name if it came to that...but until I get around to it, I'll just sign my posts.
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« Reply #20 on: June 29, 2004, 09:32:00 PM »
good enough for me doug signing makes you not anon and that my agro friend is good enough.  (was friend to much?? how about asshole comrade' thats better.)
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« Reply #21 on: July 01, 2004, 01:56:00 AM »
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On 2004-06-30 04:30:00, artman11111 wrote:

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your ok dude....

whats goin on with the salmon this year ?

peace"


Ocean coho are picking up, small but tasty!(pictured) Spring chinooks are still hot. Summer steelhead getting hot too.


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« Reply #22 on: July 01, 2004, 02:29:00 AM »
which one are you? the fat one or the ugly one?
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« Reply #23 on: July 01, 2004, 07:20:00 AM »
Are those Redneck fishermen I see?
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« Reply #24 on: July 01, 2004, 01:24:00 PM »
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"which one are you? the fat one or the ugly one?"


Im the one who doesnt need to post insults anonomously because I have no testicles.

 :wave:  I took the pic dumbass. They are my PAYING customers and friends. $500 bucks gets a pic thrown in.


Rednecks? I think one of them could be considered a redneck. Better title than "anonomous fornits punk" any day!
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« Reply #25 on: July 02, 2004, 10:43:00 AM »
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On 2004-06-29 18:22:00, Anonymous wrote:

Theres NO good reason to allow this.


Two very good reasons.

Here's one
http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?to ... =260#52214

Check out Devlin's responses.

But the more compelling reason to "allow this" is much simpler and much more basic. It is this. I am not your mommy.

If we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education

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« Reply #26 on: July 02, 2004, 10:52:00 AM »
Just the sort of answer I expected from Mrs Bighead herself...Madam Fornits.

"Not your mommy"

Give yourself a pat on the back for acknowledging all of your LEGIT responsibilities and declining one nobody asked you to consider.
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« Reply #27 on: July 02, 2004, 11:07:00 AM »
The only thing registering an alias would change, would be the time and effort it takes to make posts, which at this point is too easy, just type your profane, twisted insults and clic.

Registering an alias isnt going to give anyone on the outside world any more of a hint as to the real identity of an individual. It will simply subject the person posting to a little more accountability for what they say.

I clicked the link, nothing relevant.

Are you interested in a productive site? Harassing posts, posts made for the simple reason to insult of flame are not exactly productive are they?

Or does your head swell when the hit counter goes up?
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« Reply #28 on: July 02, 2004, 12:47:00 PM »
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On 2004-07-02 08:07:00, Anonymous wrote:

It will simply subject the person posting to a little more accountability for what they say.


Indeed! That kid who posted anon from ALA certainly wouldn't have done so had Craig Rogers been able to hold him "accountable" for doing so. Instead, because it took them a couple of days to figure out who had made the post, the kid was all lawyerd up before staff could hold his feet to the fire.

Get it?

And I really am not responsible for controling what you post or what you read. Why do you seem to have such difficulty w/ the idea of liberty? Can't you simply accept that people will do and say things beyond your control? You badger and insult me just about every time you drop in here and I don't feel an overwhelming need to control what you say. If you don't like what others post, well then read something else.

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« Reply #29 on: July 02, 2004, 02:06:00 PM »
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Indeed! That kid who posted anon from ALA certainly wouldn't have done so had Craig Rogers been able to hold him "accountable" for doing so. Instead, because it took them a couple of days to figure out who had made the post, the kid was all lawyerd up before staff could hold his feet to the fire.

Get it?

Are you missing the point?

That kid wouldnt have been discovered any sooner had he created an alias to sign in with.

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And I really am not responsible for controlling what you post or what you read. Why do you seem to have such difficulty w/ the idea of liberty?

I dont recall asking you to take any responsibility for me or anyone else. The debate is a logical and worthy one. Voicing my opinion on the subject is PURE liberty...no problem here.

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Can't you simply accept that people will do and say things beyond your control?
 

I have no desire to control what anyone says or does here, is there no logic to asking that people be given a better oportunity to control themselves? Especially in an environment where control is obviously warranted?

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You badger and insult me just about every time you drop in here and I don't feel an overwhelming need to control what you say.

No, maybe you dont, but you sure waste no time replying to my badgering insults with rhetoric and suggestions to why my mode of thinking should be modified...is that what you mean by "control"? TC concept spilled over?

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If you don't like what others post, well then read something else.


Again, I have no desire to control what people say, only to propose they be held accountable for it. Posting under a registered alias isnt going to stop the disgusting spew from those with nothing better to do...but it will sure help those who dont want to read it heed your advice, and read something else.

Mr. X wants to tell us all that ELan staff sodomize each other. Ill have Mr X to adress rather than just another anon.
Not to mention, those who chose to ignore Mr X, can do so BEFORE reading his obscene, offensive post.

GET IT?
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