[ih] RECORDING - Telecom Act at 30: Universal Service as the North Star (Benton)

[Karl Auerbach]

That kind of linguistic game may have been the norm in DC, but here on 
the west coast where by the mid-to-late 1980's we had began wiring 
things together (BARRnet, Little Garden, Interop show net, etc) we had 
little to no knowledge, nor would we have had much respect for such 
naming constraints.  We were having too much fun starting companies and 
building stuff (not to mention putting on some glorious parties [for 
instance at the Air & Space in DC, the La Grande Arche in Paris, the 
Howard Hughes penthouse in Las Vegas, the Exploritorium (sp) in San 
Francisco, etc].

For instance, what year was the first meeting of the "*Internet* 
Engineering Task Force"?  1986

         --karl--

On 3/21/26 5:43 AM, Joly MacFie via Internet-history wrote:
> I got a couple of things from this 1) that in the 90s sausage making, the
> word "internet' was taboo, because nominally it was still a DoD / NSF
> project and thus would involve whole areas of government
> -