I oncet got abducted by a alien, and he stuck a probe in me.

Microsoft has announced a new virus today. If you open your email it will erase your hard drive. It's called "The Dark Avenger". Do not open any email for the next couple of weeks til we sort this out.

Greetings
It is with great hope in our lord I wish this letter finds you well. I am Mrs Obatu N'gumba, wife of the late finance minister of Nigeria, and I wish to request your assistance in a matter I hope you will find mutually beneficial.

Al Gore didn't invent TCP/IP or Ethernet or any other technical aspects of what we now know as the Internet. But he was a primary leader in taking a network open only to the DoD and some of their contractors (including those in academia) and opening it up to the entire nation by supporting the construction of a nation-wide backbone that consumers and business could use. Al Gore has a legitimate claim to credit for the development of the Internet.

CERN, huh? Well, they can't fool me - I've read Angels and Demons.

It's ironic that someone could create something so useful yet have the political smarts of an aardvark. Maybe we should turn the internet over to the UN or something? That would make it all better ;-)

And, recalling those days, I must say that he was a real Nazi when it came to getting listed. I told him so before I was banned.

Oh yeah? You're a Nazi!!!! ;)

http://www.computerhistory.org/exhibits/internet_history/internet_history_80s.shtml

I don't recall Al Gore being a "Futurist" during the Reagan Administration.

The "Internet" had more than 10,000 hosts by 1987.

By the time Al Gore discovered the Internet(discovered how much he could milk DOT COM's for campaign contributions) in 1991, there were already 300,000 hosts on the Internet.

Oh, my gosh! Have you seen Al latley? I just saw him on the news this evening campaining...for what sane person would want him campaining for them?, but that's another topic;
well he can change his name to Al Gordo now. He's as fat as an endangered sea cow. Too many trips to trans fatty acids I guess at the Chineses embassy.

Every technology has its advantages and drawbacks.The greatest danger is technology is used by criminals.Internet is an example in place.There is need exist to moderate the content of internet site to check cheats and liars.

My name is Mark Johnson, and I've been visiting The Mudville Gazette for past few months

I’m a recent UC Berkeley Political science grad and I along with some fellow Princeton alums have been working hard to launch our own internet startup called Rizzleweb.com.
Rizzleweb is basically an online political community where people can log on and write performance reviews\comments for congressmen, senators, the president, and various other local and state officials across the country. I was hoping that if it would not be too much trouble you could place a link of our site on your blog. If this is not possible (which we completely understand), we still hope you will check out our site, and post some reviews.
Your contribution will encourage us to put more effort in improving our website.
Mark Johnson
www.Rizzleweb.com
markjohnson2020@hotmail.com

Fraud and corruption aren't limited to the internet. It's rampant in the mainstream and legacy media, which I suppose Mr. Bernier-Lee is holding up as the model of integrity, against which blogs fall short. This idea that MSM are the gold standard blogs should strive for is ludicrous. In fact the MSM have become more shameless than ever with it's increasing record of fabrications, deceptions, bias and selective ommissions.

I guess we should just turn to the fair, balanced and comprehensive MSM for what we are supposed to know!! LOL

When the Internet had 10,000 hosts (in 1987), it wasn't the Internet; it was the ARPANET, and it was not open to the public in general, nor was it open to commercial interests.

ASSHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!! Its like Rightwinged calling Kerry a MASSHOLE.............

Bugger the old Brit and thank him his invention HAS created some FUN LINGO!!!!!!!!....asshat...stupendous.

I'm with you. I was always under the impression that Al Gore created the Internet.

The Internet and the World Wide Web are two different things. As previous posters have commented, the Internet evolved from ARPANet, a US government creation used by military, government and researchers to share files. In the days before the Web was created, we used commandline FTP, and later gophers to share documents. There were no pictures or nice user interfaces. The Internet is still composed of ftp, email, the Web, and other protocols.

Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web as a distributed communications tool for the brainiacs that work at and with CERN. CERN is basically a European physics lab in Switzerland where the smartest of the smart work on things like quantum theory and particles.

Compared to the physics work he does, I'm sure inventing something like the Web was child's play to Tim. And just like other super smart people, just because he's a brainiac, doesn't mean he has any political sense or is an expert on how people use the Web he created.

And for more internet trivia: who can name the entity who started as Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle?