[ih] Politics behind the Internet

[Vint Cerf]

around 1996, Congress started to wake up to Internet - it had inklings as
early as 1992 as domain names were offered for a price.
Then Senator Gore understood Internet as early as 1986 and encourage its
development. By 1996 the revision of the Telecom Act paid some attention to
Internet because the WWW was booming. Limited or no regulation was the
general posture of the day at that time.

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On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 7:47 AM Gergely Buday via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> when the American Congress realised the importance of the Internet?
>
> Back in the eighties we were listening the Radio Free Europe on shortwave
> radios. Congress supported that financially. Did it have similar thoughts
> concerning the Internet, that it would spread freedom politically and
> economically?
>
> Yours
>
> - Gergely
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