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A Brief History of the Internet

Subtitle The Bright Side: The Dark Side
Author Michael S. Hart
Categories History, Computers, Post-1930
Language English
Published 1995
Notes

(c) 1995 Michael Hart

Approx. 15,478 words.

Excerpt

similar. I want yours. I want the one you have, even if I already have one or many.

3. Lust: I have to have it.

4. Anger: I will hurt you to insure that I have it, and and to insure that you do not have one.

5. Envy: I hate that you have one.

6. Greed: There is no end to how much I want, or to how little I want you to have in comparison.

7. Sloth: I am opposed to you moving up the ladder: it means that I will have to move up the ladder, to keep my position of lordship over you. If I have twice as much as you do, and you gain a rung, that means I can only regain my previous lordship by moving up two; it is far easier to knock you back a rung, or to prevent you from climbing at all.

Destruction is easier than construction.

This becomes even more obvious for the person who has a goal of being 10 or 100 times further up the ladder of success. . .given the old, and hopefully obsolete, or soon to be obsolete, definitions of

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2007.08.17
lippythelion

Excellent Work

2007.07.21
De-sheel

Excellent Work

2007.02.27
mokarider

This, at least, does not fit the title : instead of a "historical" ebook, we have here a kind of lunatic, chaotic, vaguely militant and highly subjective not-to-be-written paper somehow talking about the internet.
Not the thing to download if you want a history of the internet, strating from Turing machine, military networks up to todays' networks.

2006.11.10
shekhar

rich content....
very informative.
based on basics