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

[Harmon Seaver]

      No, that's just alternative dns.  Fidonet had most of what the internet has,
other than speed and the web  -- file repositories, email, newsgroups -- but it was
all done privately. My node would call a higher node in the middle of the night and
exchange files, mail, etc.  Sometimes it was a little funky, like when someone up
the line was too broke to make the long distance calls every night so the mail got
stuck there, but generally it was pretty efficient.
       For privacy seeking groups, however, it certainly still has an application,
with modifications to incorporate crypto. If packet radio were used, it could be
totally anonymous, modeled after mixmaster, with key authentication, but pretty much
untraceable, especially with burst broadcasting technology.


"!Dr. Joe Baptista" wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Harmon Seaver wrote:
>
> > jim bell wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > 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/
>
>

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Harmon Seaver, MLIS     Systems Librarian
Arrowhead Library System        Virginia, MN
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