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The Idea Factory That Spawned the Internet Turns 50

washingtonpost.com — DARPA has compiled a number of impressive achievements in the past 50 years. It pulled together researchers who created the blueprint for the Internet. It sponsored the inventor of the computer mouse (the first was carved from wood and had one button).

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  • lamiaconfitor, on 04/08/2008, -0/+10http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
  • ronjohn, on 04/08/2008, -0/+7What about nasa?
  • lukasmack, on 04/08/2008, -0/+6"Researchers are working on a two-way speech translation system that would permit soldiers to go anywhere in the world and understand the people around them. The idea, Tether said, is to create a miniature headset that would immediately translate a foreign language into English and feed it to an earpiece. In turn, a reply by an English speaker would be converted into the appropriate language and broadcast from small speakers on the headset."
    I've always wondered why something like this hasn't been worked on, turns out it has.
    But just thinking about this, it just makes me think wow.
  • weeFred, on 04/08/2008, -2/+8Are you thinking of Tim Berners Lee? He invented the World Wide Web, not the internet.
  • glue, on 04/08/2008, -0/+5"Like many government initiatives, DARPA was born out of a crisis."
    I'm kinda wondering when the crisis will end.
  • o0joshua0o, on 04/08/2008, -0/+5Al Gore didn't mean he literally invented the Internet. He meant that he is the one who made it possible for ordinary citizens to have network access, by developing the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991 (commonly referred to as "The Gore Bill")
  • GeekyGerge, on 04/08/2008, -0/+5The DARPA Chief died from a heart attack.
    Honest.
  • lamiaconfitor, on 04/08/2008, -1/+5Happy Birthday DARPA, please don't send Sam Fisher to kill me!
  • craighoxton, on 04/08/2008, -0/+4SNAKE!
  • MortalynFlux, on 04/08/2008, -1/+3Why don't the soldiers just stick a bablefish in their ear? It would eliminate the bulky equipment.
  • CatsAreGods, on 04/08/2008, -0/+2Didn't they use something like this on SG-1?
  • lamiaconfitor, on 04/08/2008, -0/+2Read previous posts before you make stupid comments.
  • nullaesthetics, on 04/08/2008, -1/+3hahaha.. shows how much you know..
  • winmywii, on 04/08/2008, -1/+3I wish I could digg that twice.
  • imitationflavor, on 04/08/2008, -0/+2god bless the darpa initiative :D
  • Pake, on 04/08/2008, -0/+2I wonder if it's codename is Babelfish...
  • unpolloloco, on 04/08/2008, -0/+1ummmmm what????????
    That was what us "right wingers" call a joke
    On that note, I used a direct quote from Snopes (http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp)

    So, you do some research before accusing people of regurgitating right-wing misinformation
  • Pake, on 04/08/2008, -0/+1Mortalynflux did the joke. I'm actually wondering if it is the codename.
  • inactive, on 04/08/2008, -2/+3the DARPA initiative is nearing its goal. soon all of you will be stuck into computers day so your souls can be extracted. muahaha. muahahah. muaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahaha.
  • mith167, on 04/08/2008, -0/+1DARPA or Stargate...YOU DECIDE!!!!
  • Regbooker, on 04/08/2008, -1/+2Don't worry, he's actually on the run from them.
  • TheBigBlueShoe, on 04/09/2008, -0/+1It'd be nice if they'd stop at fifty.
  • akamurph, on 04/08/2008, -1/+2Actually assclown, it's you Europeans that put the US at the center of everything... take a look at the front page of your favorite newspaper.
    Wow, looking at your comments you seem to be a very optimistic individual!
  • weeFred, on 04/08/2008, -0/+11st generation universal translator?
  • bubbadigg, on 04/08/2008, -0/+1Wait until Al Gore realizes that the internet is responsible for Global Warming

  • o0joshua0o, on 04/08/2008, -2/+3Do some research before regurgitating right-wing misinformation.
  • lamiaconfitor, on 04/08/2008, -0/+1I was waiting for that joke...
  • ronjohn, on 04/19/2008, -0/+1Dug for being funny!
  • Donwangugi, on 04/08/2008, -1/+2He is foreign for sure, British actually, not a liberal. Could in fact be very conservative.
  • lamiaconfitor, on 04/08/2008, -0/+1misinformation. either from you or them, I don't care.
  • crampy20, on 04/08/2008, -1/+1what are you talking about? the US has not featured on the front page of any UK newspaper in a long time, in fact there has been no televised news about the US since clinton made that bosnia screw up. So assclown, before you comment on the country I live in, live there yourself.
  • ronjohn, on 04/08/2008, -1/+1Cool world domination made easier. Hopefully we will have Chinese down pat..
  • mrubio, on 04/08/2008, -0/+0impossibility number 11?
    http://technology.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=d ...
  • aechase, on 04/08/2008, -1/+1http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v417/n6884/ab ...
    Or if that still doesn't work, doi: 10.1038/417037a
  • crampy20, on 04/08/2008, -1/+1your caustic laughter chills me
  • bubbadigg, on 04/08/2008, -0/+0Al Gore meant that he "invented" the internet if it would get him more votes.
  • crampy20, on 04/08/2008, -2/+1as far as real people who live in the real world are concerned the internet is the world wide web so excuse me for being realistic in my use of words.
    and of course i mean tim berners lee.
  • bubbadigg, on 04/08/2008, -1/+0Wasn't DARPA and Gregg a television show ??
  • Superperson, on 04/08/2008, -8/+7I thought Al Gore invented the Internet?
  • bubbadigg, on 04/08/2008, -1/+0What do we need that for.. just shoot them and you don't need to talk to them.

  • bubbadigg, on 04/08/2008, -1/+0Actually, I invented the internet... in fact I still got them 2 cans and string laying out in the back yard.

  • ronjohn, on 04/08/2008, -4/+2Dugg down for being a typical dumb American
  • coustoe, on 04/08/2008, -4/+2I love when dumb liberals make comments on digg
  • cplusplus, on 04/08/2008, -4/+2It sure would be nice of the Idea Factory was civilian. Working to help average folks instead of the military.
  • aechase, on 04/08/2008, -2/+0"Of course, numerous projects are classified because they may have a useful military application or because DARPA does not want the world to know everything it is doing."

    Which leads to tiny little 'funded by DARPA' footnotes in peer-reviewed journals. See one of the more *****-insane neuroscience papers I've ever read: the "rat-bot".
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1961798.stm
    http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v417/n6884/ab ...
  • klev2010, on 04/08/2008, -5/+3"The Idea Factory" haha sounds cool
  • mrubio, on 04/08/2008, -5/+2Anything to do with DHARMA?
  • ronjohn, on 04/08/2008, -5/+2To bad they couldn't invent anything to bring water or aid to Katrina levee victims....
  • unpolloloco, on 04/08/2008, -4/+1I thought Al Gore was older than that

    "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet"
  • zachsmith47, on 04/08/2008, -5/+1Does Al Gore know about this?
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