Re: Come to America, #1, migrants!

Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> Tiny Human Ferret wrote:
>
> > Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> >
> > > Maarten Andriessen wrote:
> > >
> > > > Add to the list:
> > > >
> > > > - Most electricity use per-capita.
> > > > - Most gasoline use per-capita.
> > > > - Most cars as well by the way ;)
> > > > - America also owns the most IP addresses and ain't giving em up to 
> > > > help out Asia.
> > >
> > >
> > > America is also the place that invented the Internet (aside from Mr. 
> > > Gore) and those IP addresses. In true foreigner form you ask to take 
> > > what we come up with and espouse your sense of entitlement towards 
> > > our stuff. Why don't you invent your own Internet?
> >
> >
> > The French invented Minitel about 20 years before the US invented 
> > TCP/IP or anything like it. Hell, Minitel was in place before there 
> > ever was a dial-up BBS in the States.
>
>
> Minitel apparently started around 1982. APRANET started September of 
> 1969. ARPANET switched over to TCP/IP starting in 1981.

Damn. I stand corrected on the technical details. However, MiniTel was 
immediately deployed to the French public, IIRC the InterNet wasn't 
publicly accessible in the States until maybe 1994 or so.


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