Despite The Internet 's Origin In The Late 1960s As A Government Sponsored Means Of Communication Between The Department Of Defense, Private Industry, And Academia, It Has Been At Its Best And Generated The Greatest Economic, Social, And Technological Benefits Since It Was 'liberated' By The Hordes Of 'geeks' Who Were Originally Hired To Run It By Employers Who Were Not Themselves Conversant With Computers, And Couldn't Tell When Their Employees Were Exchanging Official Traffic Or Trading Dirty Jokes And Recipes For Marijuana Brownies.

-L. Neil Smith

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Despite The Internet 's Origin In The

L. Neil Smith

Despite The Internet 's Origin In The Late 1960s As A Government Sponsored Means Of Communication Between The Department Of Defense, Private Industry, And Academia, It Has Been At Its Best And Generated The Greatest Economic, Social, And Technological Benefits Since It Was 'liberated' By The Hordes Of 'geeks' Who Were Originally Hired To Run It By Employers Who Were Not Themselves Conversant With Computers, And Couldn't Tell When Their Employees Were Exchanging Official Traffic Or Trading Dirty Jokes And Recipes For Marijuana Brownies.

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I Always Said That In A Country Where A Legislature, Its Sessions Limited By Statute, Could Alter Reality By Turning Back The Clock (i Actually Saw This Done, Once, With A Long Pole Pushing On The Hour Hand), Any Travesty Was Possible. I See Nothing Lately To Prove Me Wrong.

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