[ih] New Republic Article - "How We Misremember the Internet’s Origins"

[Darius Kazemi]

This article seems to be a rorschach test at this point. I'm seeing claims
that the article paints everyone as a hippie, and claims that the article
paints everyone as a stuffed shirt authoritarian!

On Fri, Nov 1, 2019, 5:17 PM Bernie Cosell <bernie at fantasyfarm.com> wrote:

> On November 1, 2019 15:42:26 Eric Gade <eric.gade at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The very general idea of the article is correct: one can and should take
>> political, economic, and cultural forces into consideration when writing
>> the history of any technology. What is bizarre about this article is that
>> the author is only saying that this is so, implying that no one has done
>> this for the history of the Internet (I guess?) while offering no original
>> analysis in its place. So it's not really saying much in itself.
>>
>>
> so many people frkm bith coasts and in the middle had to do with the
> protocol ddvelopment, the experiments the clever programmers who made
> it all work that the description is ludicrous.   bob kahn a hippie?
>
> the author should take a gander of the roster of folk designated "internet
> pioneers" at the net at 50 shindig.  {c that list isn't even complete.. i
> suspect
> we all know someone who should have been included {e. g., will crowther}
>
>
> /bernie\
>                      Bernie Cosell
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