FCC Approves New Net Neutrality Rules: 02-26-15

Well, BEFORE you could get the maximum speed available for your area at a historically reasonable cost AND, if that were too inadequate, you could, at a VERY low cost get a speed that was even FASTER on a remote system. After all, that is what allows a site like THIS to even be up, and what many have historically discussed here has centered around the ability to USE that speed!

It did, with LESS government intervention than ever before, go from a meager low level hobbyist business to a HUGE financial BEHEMOTH that is SO common place that some have dared to call it a necessary right on a par with EATING! It started with *****NO***** intervention! The US government regulated the infrastructure and all, and everything ELSE skyrocketed while the internet LANGUISHED, and FEW even KNEW about it! Even LINUX was taking off! THEN the internet opened up! AGAIN, to little fanfare! Ironically, I got onto it around that time.

THEN, several years later, a guy sick of writing reports writes a new language. STILL, FEW know about the internet! THEN TBL, Tim Berners Lee comes onto the picture. A little later, and suddenly everyone marvels at the internet that many think was JUST invented!

So virtually NOTHING, as far as the average person, at least in the US, is concerned, happened when the US had regulated it! All the stuff most people NOW consider the internet, happened through NON government people and corporations, AFTER the government released the backbone.

NOTE, the preamble to the following is GARBAGE, but is basically admitted by them in the "background" statement:

High Performance Computing Act of 1991 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

AL GORE didn't CREATE the internet, but merely opened it up. The above act DOES speak of funds going to several things, but they were to help spur development. They had the internet, telnet, ftp, email, resource search engines, UNIX, LINUX, etc.... before this bill.

It's ALSO interesting that they credit the 1991 act with helping Andressen create the first HTML client, which of course was IMPOSSIBLE unless he worked with the group developing the server, Wikipedia claims TBL created the first client AND SERVER, but that supposedly happened in 1989.

Tim Berners-Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

But I guess THIS might get lost in history as well.

Developing a client without a server makes even less sense than creating a speaker before a mike. The clients job is to do what the server instructs, and the likewise instruct the server, so you need to know how the server works BEFORE developing the client, and the client is needed to test the server, so it is a good idea to develop both together.

Steve

Right, just need it in the UK now :p

Wow! Chalk one up for the little guy.

Cheers. - Frank

SOS.

Cheers. - Frank