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surdumil:
The Internet story (with capital "I") is turning into a bit of a comedy.

The original intent of the ARPA project was to create a communication network that would be so robust that it would withstand a nuclear war.
It was probably pretty successful, but I hope it's not put to the test.

Now that the project has grown into this huge anarchical communication network, governments are trying to control what information can be sent to where.  And by golly, it's a tough job... and there's significant political resistance.

And then there are these merchant folk who set things up so they could profiteer by selling music and videos on cheap, crappy, technology-locked media, and they want to keep doing that while the music and video is suddenly available without the media, over this extremely robust communication network.

Depending on what faction you are talking to, it's kinda like a Frankenstein story, or maybe something about Aladin's lamp, or Brave New World, or 1984, or a water empire story.

Aneroph:
Wait...internet created by the people? Created by the military? I thought it was Al Gore :D

surdumil:
True.  It was Al Gore who invented it.   Ted Stevens revealed that it was made out of a series of tubes.  ;)

Natheria:
Really? I thought the internet was a big truck...

Ixarku:

--- Quote from: Aneroph on January 10, 2010, 04:11:16 PM ---Wait...internet created by the people? Created by the military? I thought it was Al Gore :D

--- End quote ---

I thought Al Gore was the inventor of the environment and the first Emperor of the Moon.

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