[ih] Censoring the history of the Internet

[Mike Padlipsky]

I've been working on an article about the censoring of Internet history 
which I think should be of interest to most readers of [ih].

With apologies for the inconvenience, it can be found at 
http://f1.pg.briefcase.yahoo.com/firstmap@sbcglobal.net/ ,
just sitting there as the file called "ppapp.html".  It's there because I 
prefer to protect my good old real, but small and pro bono, ISP from the 
many hits it might well receive, so I choose to use the awkward personal 
web page-imitation furnished by my new ISP-impersonator for it 
instead.  (The ISP-impersonator came with the DSL line I finally broke down 
and sprung for recently, and I figure I might as well get some use out of it.)

[This, by the way, is the "unpoliticized" version of the article, despite 
what some readers might think.  In fact, out of perhaps misguided sentiment 
I'm still trying to hold out against using the alternative version I did in 
response to the suggestion that it would be more publishable if it were 
refocused toward the broader "Internet Governance" theme, which I received 
when I submitted an earlier version to one of the more-or-less prominent 
(non-"nerd") "e-zines" -- even though I do find the "politicized" version 
more amusing....]


BONUS:  Take two Good Marks out of Petty Credit if you know enough 
pre-Internet technohistory to be able to explain why I'm doing this 
today.  (Indeed, e-let me know what you came up with and I'll grant a third 
Good Mark -- provided you got it right, of course -- the Petty Credit 
budget's running a surplus these days/months/years.)


cheers, map
http://www.lafn.org/~ba213/mapstuff.html

"One (indeed, perhaps the only) indisputable benefit of the 'Net is that 
you don't have to waste any stamps on, nor be complicitous in the killing 
of any trees for, letters to editors and/or other invincibly smug corporate 
behemoths that aren't going to be responded to because they show said 
institutions up, but need to be sent anyway."

        --first new, official Elements of Networking Style Slogan in 
yearsandyears
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