Yes it was and Im well aware of that. After its invention it was turned over to universities to connect around the world to share information closer to real time. Business was banned from the internet. It wasnt until much later that the stirrings of business began to infiltrate the net. At first it was just to serve the people not to sell you something. It was basic information and drivers you could download. Then the next step that began the inroads was voip. That is when business started to step in and pour money into the infrastructure of the internet. From there video conferencing was born. After that the rest is history. Im well aware because I lived it from the baby shoes it once was having access at several major universities To helping some of todays major players get on board. You can thank Ma Bell for many of the major sucess stories as they held much of it together in the early days until they were split up.

Almost correct. Commerce and advertising happened way before VOIP or video conferencing. That makes sense since voip and video require precious bandwidth and 24k banner ads did not. I lived it, sold HTML specs, browsed it during the university hook up days etc...
Business almost ruined the internet for a while. Until they found a ways to monetize it.

Netscape (yes I said it) to me was one of the best browser formats ever made. With thier add on of netmeeting began the video link for corporate users. Early models of video over the net included cuseeme made by cornell university.

The old days were so much fun. lol

Agreed. I remember Netscape with much fondness as well. After Cornell voip development seemed to have been taken over by the israelis for some reason.

Back to the OP. So, how many of you can't get by without Obama's help?

They just didn't get enough government assistance.

Tom you are ranting again, there are good investments and bad investments but industry isn't going to invest in technology unless the return is assured, so sometimes government gives them a push, sometimes that is military and sometimes it is not. It is easy to pick losers Tom and very hard to pick winners. let me ask how is the Joint strike Fighter program going, why arn't you ranting against that?

Hello again,

Yes, let's talk about the OP. Wouldn't it be nice if we talked about what the candidates ACTUAL position IS on these issues, instead of a GOTCHA couple of words taken out of context???

BOTH sides do it. The problem for YOU and ME, is WE buy into it, post the BS, and challenge each other to justify it. Well, I got better things to do.

excon

As opposed to taking Pennsylvania state House Republican Mike Turzai's comments out of context .

Hello again, tom:

All I heard him say, is what I reported. If it was out of context, you could have shown me. Better yet, show me now. I'm a reasonable fellow. It's just that I'm NOT interested in discussing WORDS. Policy is MUCH more interesting...

But, if that guy said SOMETHING else in that statement, I'll retract and apologize.

excon

Why is it do you think people put their money elsewhere? Hmmm?????

Read your article. All of it.

To avoid paying taxes?

Hello again, Steve:

I did. I read it VERY CAREFULLY.. I saw NOTHING about a LONGER statement Tirzai made that said something OTHER than what I reported... Oh, I saw where his SPOKESMAN said he meant something else. But, I did NOT see a statement where his words were taken out of context...

If it does, PLEASE show me.

excon

I didn't say it was taken out of context, I believe I've said something to the effect of you're reading things into it that just aren't there and that's what the spokesman explained.