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A Brief History of the Internet - Michael Hart
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Title: A Brief History of the Internet
Author: Michael Hart
Posting Date: March 18, 2012 [EBook #250] Release Date: March, 1995
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE INTERNET ***
Produced by Michael Hart
A Brief History of the Internet The Bright Side: The Dark Side by Michael Hart with Max Fuller
(C)1995, Released on March 8th, 1995
Chapter 00 Preface
The Internet Conquers Space, Time, and Mass Production…
Michael Hart called it NeoMass Production [TM] in 1971… and published the U.S. Declaration of Independence on the and no one was listening…or were they? ???careful!!!! If the governments, universities or colleges of the world wanted people to be educated, they certainly could have a copy of things like the Declaration of Independence where everyone could get an electronic copy. After all, it has been over 25 years since the Internet began as government funded projects among our universities, and only 24 years since the Declaration was posted, followed by the Bill of Rights, Constitution, the Bible, Shakespeare, etc.
Why do more people get their electronic books from others than these institutions when they spend a TRILLION DOLLAR BUDGET EVERY YEAR pretending their goal is some universal form of education.
This is the story of the Bright Side and Dark Side of the Internet. . .Bright Side first.
The Facts:
The Internet is a primitive version of the Star Trek Communicator,
the Star Trek Transporter,
and, also a primitive version of the Star Trek Replicator.
Communicator
The Internet let's
you talk to anyone on the Earth, as long as they, too, are on the Internet.
Transporter
The Internet let's
you transport anything you would be able to get into your computer to any Netter.
Replicator
The Internet let's
you replicate anything anyone is able to get into their computer, from The Mona Lisa
to The Klein Bottle
if you use the right printer,
and the library never closes, the books are always on the shelves, never checked out, lost, in for binding, and there is never an overdue fine because you never, ever, have to take them back.
The Bright Side and the Dark Side
For the first time in the entire history of the Earth, we have the ability for EVERYONE to get copies of EVERYTHING as long as it can be digitized and communicated to all of the people on the Earth, via computers [and the devices a person might need to make a PHYSICAL, rather than VIRTUAL copy of whatever it might be. . .
Think about what you have just read for a moment, please,
EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE. . .
as long as the Information Superhighway is not taken over by the INFORMATION RICH and denied access to others other than for a fee they may not be able to pay, and shouldn't have to pay. . .since the INFORMATION RICH have had rides for free for the first 25 years of the Internet.]
From 1969 to 1994, most of the traffic on the Information Superhighway was generated by individuals who did not pay tolls to get on the ramps to the Information Superhighway . . .in fact, ALL of the early users were paid to get on, except one. . .they were paid. . .BY YOU!
Michael Hart may have been the first person who got on as a private individual, not paid by any of the 23 nodes, or the Internet/ARPANet system, for his work; but who at the time of this publication might have given away 25 billion worth of Etexts in return for his free network access.
[i.e. Mr. Hart was the first normal
person to have this access to the Internet, a first non-computer-professional for social responsibility; We should provide information to all persons, without delay. . .simply because WE CAN!
Just like climbing Mount Everest or going into space, and this is so much cheaper and less dangerous.
[For those of you considering asking that his accesses be revoked, he has received permission from CCSO management, previously CSO as indicated in his email address, for the posting of this document and has also received permission from several other colleges and/or universities, at which he has computer accounts and/or is affiliated.]
In the beginning, all the messages on the Net were either hardware or software crash messages, people looking for a helping hand in keeping their mainframes up and running— and that was about it for the first 10-15 years of cyber- space. . .cyber-space. . .mostly just space. . .there was nothing really in it for anyone, but mainframe operators, programmers, and a few computer consultants who worked in multi-state regions because there weren't enough computer installations in any single state, not even California or Illinois, to keep a computer consultant in business.
The Bright Side
Mr. Hart had a vision in 1971 that the greatest purpose a computer network would ever provide would be the storage, transmission, and copying of the library of information a whole planet of human beings would generate. These ideas were remarkably ahead of their time, as attested to by an Independent Plans of Study Degree in the subject of Human Machine Interfaces from the University of Illinois, 1973. This degree, and the publications of the first few Etexts [Electronic Texts] on the Internet, began the process the Internet now knows as Project Gutenberg, which has caught fire and spread to all areas of the Internet, and spawned several generations