CDR: Re: I created the "Al Gore created the Internet" story

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Harmon Seaver wrote:

jim bell wrote:

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I'll stake my claim right here. Very shortly after Algore called the Internet the "Information Superhighway", I called FIDOnet "the Information Jeep-Trail."

I had a fidonet node for awhile. The concept really needs to be revived -- and combined with more recent developments like Publius, freenet, and gnutella. Sort of an underground internet -- the Information Subway. Just remember I coined that one and it's copylefted.

in a way it already has - http://www.dot-god.com/ and http://www.open-rsc.org/ regards joe -- Joe Baptista http://www.dot.god/ dot.GOD Hostmaster