Who was the first U.S. President to put the White House online? Bill Clinton brought the internet connection to the White House in 1993 with http://www.whitehouse.gov. Is the "Internet" & the "Web" the same thing? NO - The Internet is a network of networks, linking computers to computers. The WWW incorporates all of the networks together and directs. Who was the first world leader to send an email? Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom sent out an email on 26 March, 1976 from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.
Your right, the government started using ARPANET (secretively) in 1973. They were a big push behind the implimentation of the Network Voice Protocol (NVP) that same year. They saw the NVP as the perfect security answer to voice com's. My question was pointed at "online" or an accessable site to the White House.
Can you tell me, in non-technical terms, what Internet II is? I heard that it is a new, improved Internet, more controls, and without all the crap that we have to deal with today (worms, viruses, trolls, etc). Will it be open to the public? (Of course, that would nix any kind of control, wouldn't it.)
Internet2 is a consortium of U.S. universities developing new networking technolgy to be implimented on the existing internet network. All those movies you've seen with interactive video and access to massive amouts of data are coming to life. The government started a program called NGI (next generation internet) and then issued grants for the universities to get involved. These are the same universities that gave us what we are using today. They saw what they built go to a multi-billion dollar industry and their trying to do that again. It's not going to replace the existing internet. With $30 million being pumped into the program from coporate sponsors they're concentrating on the marketable aspects. It's a massive push to "interactive" and web based applications. "Middleware" is the scecurity they are developing for users of the web based applications. Anonymity will be a thing of the past on the internet. Take away the cloak and the internet slime disappears. I think your right that the public won't get access for quite a while. Ever since Nov. 3rd, 1988, and the internet was infected by the first "worm" (black thursday), I think we all realized that security attacks would never stop. I really don't feel this new technology will bring "total" security or a total clean-up, but I sure hope so.
