On Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:52:56 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 11:28:56 -0400, iBoaterer wrote:


Which has nothing to do with the subject at hand, namely that Gore was
a driving force behind the internet.

LOL! Right...

You really should actually investigate a subject before making stupid
comments. But then again, you are insane and stupid.

Gore certainly WAS a driving force behind the internet. Too bad O'Reilly
won't tell you the truth, moron.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore...ion_technology


Gore was instrumental in passing a law that threw a lot of tax money
at the backbone infrastructure that the telcoms were already building.
You can easily argue that this was the kick start for broadband and
"fast" internet we are now used to,
The open question is how long it would have taken the telcoms without
this infusion of tax money and whether there was some federal help in
getting easements, although most of the fiber followed existing copper
paths.

Well, gee.. ya think? THe open question... what a load of ****. You
insist that Gore had minimual or nothing to do with it, along with
your ****forbrains buddies, then when faced with the facts, you weasel
by saying, well business could have solved it. THEY DIDN'T.

IBM and Comsat were part of that enterprise and we were hearing about
it in the TP community before the first foot of fiber was laid. At
that time, your best chance for real broadband was leasing space on TV
cable hard line but that was short hops and fairly limited capacity.
The first time I saw that setup was in Dallas where the education
center was on the other side of Rt 124 from the main Dallas office and
there was no easy way to get across that road. The cable company
offered us what would be called a T1 these days a whole lot cheaper
than the RBOC. I am not sure they even had it available in that area
at the time..