[ih] ARPANet anniversary

[jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)]

So, Fox news has a nice little segment about how today is the 40th anniversary
of the ARPANet. The usual journalistic mistakes abound: they said it was the
40th anniversary of the Internet - which I can sort of forgive them for - and
also the 40th anniversary of the WWW - which is a little less excusable.

Still, at least they covered it: I saw nothing on CNN (either the main page, or
the technology section), nor on the NYT site (ditto).

The thing that was most irritating is that it was very Kleinrock-centric,
leaving out Licklider (one especially irritating segment went on about
'computers talking to people', or words to that effect, leaving out Lick's key
role in that idea), Taylor, Roberts, etc.

     Noel