Prickly City by Scott Stantis for December 02, 2022

Why try to become smarter when the internet is just loaded with evidence that you already are?

Plus virtually every lie ever told, read by people who can not tell the differents.

The internet gives you the opportunity to become smarter, and the opportunity to show how stupid you really are.

Television was also expected to be a great educational tool…

The internetz – the modern day, electronic, wireless Tower of Babel. Supposed to bring us together, but ends up driving us apart.

especially right-wing populism’s new religion, the immersion into never-ending conspiracy theories

Everyone knows the internet was developed primarily for the purpose of posting pictures and videos of cats.

Hummm…

Bill Clinton let the internet go private, but Congressman Al Gore did help bring it about…

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The internet began as ARPANET, an academic research network that was funded by the military’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA, now DARPA). The project was led by Bob Taylor, an ARPA administrator, and the network was built by the consulting firm of Bolt, Beranek and Newman. It began operations in 1969.

In 1973, software engineers Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn began work on the next generation of networking standards for the ARPANET. These standards, known as TCP/IP, became the foundation of the modern internet. ARPANET switched to using TCP/IP on January 1, 1983.

During the 1980s, funding for the internet shifted from the military to the National Science Foundation. The NSF funded the long-distance networks that served as the internet’s backbone from 1981 until 1994.

In 1994, the Clinton Administration turned control over the internet backbone to the private sector. It has been privately operated and funded ever since.

Former Vice President Al Gore is frequently quoted as claiming credit for the invention of the internet, but what he actually said in a 1999 CNN interview was “I took the initiative in creating the internet.” Gore was widely mocked for this statement.

But the men who did invent the internet, TCP/IP designers Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf, wrote in Gore’s defense in 2000.

They argue that Gore was “the first political leader to recognize the importance of the internet and to promote and support its development.”

“As far back as the 1970s Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications,” the pair wrote. “As a Senator in the 1980s Gore urged government agencies to consolidate what at the time were several dozen different and unconnected networks into an ‘Interagency Network.’” Gore sponsored the 1991 High Performance Computing and Communications Act, which ✁

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https:

//www.vox.com/2014/6/16/18076282/the-internet

….of moose and men…

The fact that the 3 Stooges was a huge hit for ages should have been a warning.

The best laid plans of moose and men.

And Winslow’s a coyote (right?). So an animal is looking at vids of animals. And Carmen doesn’t like that because why?

Well, Steve Gibson (inventor of Spinrite) did say the Internet is now a sewer.