Foreword "Goofy Mustaches"

[Dave Monroe]

Everybody's both right and wrong here.  Not wanting to
get caught in a veritable hall of mirrors attempting
to bibliographize here, some general resources ...

http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml

http://www.historyoftheinternet.com/index.html

http://www.pbs.org/internet/timeline/

... as a "place," such as it u/dys/topically is, to
aiding and abetting the U.S. gov't in conducting its
won peculiar type of "flame wars," at any rate.  Do
note as well that supercomputer advances here, once
made in flight simulators, are now largely made in
nuclear explosion simulators.  Meanwhile, the Japanese
have leapt ahead of us in this regard in the process
of desigining digital weather models ...

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4552546.htm

http://sci.newsfactor.com/perl/story/17379.html

http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-021118computer,0,6849060.story

--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> David is way closer to the truth than Malign on this
> particular issue.... 
> 
> > In a message dated 4/27/03 12:58:23 PM,
> > davemarc at panix.com writes:
> > 
> > The Internet, as I understand it, wasn't merely
> > conceived as a place where we can conduct flame
> > wars--it was conceived by the US government as a
> > way to maintain control even after a nuclear
> > catastrophe.  In other words, it was created as
> > a tool for social control. 
> 
> --- MalignD at aol.com wrote:
>
> > > You understand wrongly.

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