[ih] Internet should be in private hands

[Jorge Amodio]

Not all Europeans are created equal ;-)

-J


On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 2:33 PM Toerless Eckert <tte at cs.fau.de> wrote:

> Maybe this is about the evolution of funding the networks constituting the
> Internet
> in the USA from primarily public to primarily private starting in the
> first haf of the 1900th.
>
> google "Al Gore invented the Internet" to learn more ( ;-) )
>
> (sorry to be so facetious, but this part of Internet history and lore is
> obviously very
>  non-inclusive, but only USA centric. Where in reality this was also the
> first decade where
> other parts of the planet started to join the party in significant parts.
>
> But admittedly: The USA story is still the most enjoyable story. Great
> marketing!
> And best documented too (those europeans suck at documentation *suck*).
>
> Cheers
>     Toerless
>
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 02:17:24PM -0600, Jorge Amodio via
> Internet-history wrote:
> > Hi Alejandro,
> >
> > where and from whom did you "hear" that ?
> >
> > mid 80's was very early on, no commercial isps yet. NSF started to
> sponsor
> > the network in 1985. NSFNet came online in 1986.
> >
> > Regards
> > Jorge
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 1:31 PM Alejandro Acosta via Internet-history <
> > internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello There,
> > >
> > >    I think this is the right list to ask.  My apologies if my comments
> > > are not accurate.
> > >
> > >    I have heard a couple of times that there was a moment in the
> history
> > > of the Internet where private companies were putting pressure on the
> > > community indicating that the Internet had to be controlled by a
> private
> > > company, that it had to be in the hands of someone, not in their free
> > > will. Is it so?. I think these comments used to occur when there was a
> > > big failure in the network (I think I've heard mostly when there were
> > > congestion control issues).., probably in the mid 80's or so.
> > >
> > >    Am I crazy or the above actually happened? If so, I'm looking for
> > > information, documentation, references, etc. If I'm wrong nothing
> > > happen, just let me know :-)
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > >
> > > Alejandro,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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