[ih] Politics behind the Internet

[Brian E Carpenter]

There was a lot of overlap with the political interest in high performance
computing. In particular, the US High-Performance Computing Act of 1991
(a.k.a. The Gore Bill) has a whole section on "National Research and
Education Network".

A good reference is "Building Information Infrastructure", Brian Kahin (editor),
ISBN 0-390-03083X-X, 1992.

Regards
    Brian Carpenter

On 22-Jul-24 06:48, Bob Purvy via Internet-history wrote:
> I recall lots of talk about "the information superhighway," but it usually
> wasn't very specific.
> 
> On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 11:33 AM Vint Cerf via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>
>> v
>>
>>
>> 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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