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[at-l] History of the Internet

Al Gore saying he invented the internet is like
Pres Kennedy claiming to have invented the Saturn V
or that Jenrette established the Appalachian Trail

 1. 16 U.S.C.A. ? 460a-7
UNITED STATES CODE ANNOTATED TITLE 16. CONSERVATION CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL


PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES SUBCHAPTER LXV--NATIONAL
PARKWAYS ? 460a-7. Coordination of recreational development on parkway and
national forest lands; administration of forest land recreational facilities
and access road development by Secretary of Agriculture; forest road and
Appalachian Trail relocation and reconstruction and alternative forest road
provision by Secretary of the Interior

... national forest lands; administration of forest land recreational
facilities and access road development by Secretary of Agriculture; forest
road and Appalachian Trail relocation and reconstruction and alternative
forest road provision by Secretary of the Interior To effectuate the
recommendations in the report ...

...(3) The Secretary of the Interior may relocate and reconstruct portions
of the Appalachian Trail, including trail shelters, that may be disturbed by
the parkway extension and such relocation and reconstruction may be
performed (A) ...

... be disturbed by the parkway extension and such relocation and
reconstruction may be performed (A) on non-Federal lands when the
Appalachian Trail Conference obtains the consent of the owner to the use of
the lands for the purpose and agrees to assume ...


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  2. 16 U.S.C.A. ? 1241
UNITED STATES CODE ANNOTATED TITLE 16. CONSERVATION CHAPTER 27--NATIONAL
TRAILS SYSTEM ? 1241. Congressional statement of policy and declaration of
purpose

... the means for attaining these objectives by instituting a national
system of recreation, scenic and historic trails, by designating the
Appalachian Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail as the initial components of
that system, and by prescribing the methods by which, and ...


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  3. 16 U.S.C.A. ? 1244
UNITED STATES CODE ANNOTATED TITLE 16. CONSERVATION CHAPTER 27--NATIONAL
TRAILS SYSTEM ? 1244. National scenic and national historic trails

... the right-of-way for such trail shall comprise the trail depicted on the
maps identified as "Nationwide System of Trails, Proposed Appalachian Trail,
NST-AT- 101-May 1967", which shall be on file and available for public
inspection in the office of the Director of ...

... for it under agreements in effect as of October 2, 1968, to which
Federal agencies and States were parties. The Appalachian Trail shall be
administered primarily as a footpath by the Secretary of the Interior, in
consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture. ...

... Agriculture. (5) Natchez Trace, from Nashville, Tennessee, approximately
six hundred miles to Natchez, Mississippi. (6) North Country Trail, from the
Appalachian Trail in Vermont, approximately three thousand two hundred miles
through the States of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and
Minnesota, ...


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  4. 16 U.S.C.A. ? 1246
UNITED STATES CODE ANNOTATED TITLE 16. CONSERVATION CHAPTER 27--NATIONAL
TRAILS SYSTEM ? 1246. Administration and development of national trails
system

... of Putnam, State of N.Y., S.D.N.Y.1990, 737 F.Supp. 212. Eminent Domain
169 Acquisition of plaintiff's land for relocation of Appalachian Trail was
"reasonably necessary" even though trail itself did not cross her land;
Congress intended acquisition of land for corridor surrounding ...


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  5. 16 U.S.C.A. ? 1249
UNITED STATES CODE ANNOTATED TITLE 16. CONSERVATION CHAPTER 27--NATIONAL
TRAILS SYSTEM ? 1249. Authorization of appropriations

... of the Congress that the Secretary should substantially complete the
land acquisition program necessary to insure the protection of the
Appalachian Trail within three complete fiscal years following March 21,
1978. (b) For the purposes of Public Law 95-42 (91 Stat. 211), ...

... (4), inserted "(2)" preceding the sentence beginning "It is the express
intent of the Congress" and substituted "protection of the Appalachian Trail
within three" for "protection of the Trail within three". Subsec. (c). Pub.
L. 98-11, ? 209(5), designated existing provisions as ...

... "in the subsequent fiscal year" and deleted par. (2) provision for
transmission of a report to Congressional committees by the Appalachian
Trail Conference at close of each fiscal year, until entire acquisition
program was completed, covering conduct of negotiations for acquisition
program ...


On 2/8/06, Paul Magnanti <pmags@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> --- Bob C <ellen@clinic.net> wrote:
>
> >This
> > report was influential on then Senator Al Gore, and
> > ushered in high speed networks that laid the
> > networking foundation for the future information
> > superhighway."
> >
>
> Appropriating money is like saying that politicians
> built the Brooklyn Bridge.
>
> By 1986, the main infrastructure was in place. Much of
> the technology we associate with the Internet (trunk
> lines, protocols, e-mail, Usenet, even T1 [high speed]
> lines) and what most people think of the "Modern
> internet" was done by 1991..IN SWITZERLAND.
>
> So, if you want to think some politicians came up with
> this thing we are typing on? Go for it!
>
> > This suggests to me that Gore may have in fact
> > played some sort of a role in creating the modern
> > Internet and in persuading Congress to pass the
> > funds needed.
>
> CERN, 1991. Switzerland. Scientist.
>
> > However, don't take this as gospel. I'm in a
> > learning phase at the moment. I did read recently
> > that this country has some sort of control over the
> > Internet and that Europe wanted a piece of the
> > action, whatever that means.
> >
>
> Go to iana.org.
>
> No more to say for me. I'll just start repeating
> myself.
>
> all the best
>
>
>
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