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This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 209.22.221.73 (talk) at 19:14, 27 July 2005 (Why I reverted your changes to ARPANET and History of the Internet). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Welcome to Wikipedia. I appreciate your interest in the automobile articles, and look forward to your future contributions. I edited your Datsun Sports content, however, as it was a bit too enthusiastic - see NPOV for more. Also, note that Sports Car International Top Sports Cars is a list of cars compiled by a magazine, not our own personal opinions on the topic. Please drop by Wikipedia:WikiProject Automobiles and join our effort! --SFoskett 20:33, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

How about the paperwork presenting government cash awards annually for office automation from 1980-1989?

The government does not usually publish in magazines nor can a government employee copyright an idea or software developed as part of the job. Some of the proof would be in cash awards given to Albert Clark over the years that specifically mention the initiatives. He was not a "General", but a high level working stiff that created the ideas and presented his cases to generals and worked through the bureaucracy of getting permissions, money, assembling systems analyists and contract programmers to execute those ideas. In return he was given a few hundred dollars per year extra for annual awards. Not much fanfare, no real credit, but does that make it false.

How about a user guide written by him in the 1979 timeframe? Most people were using key punch cards and batch reports when his team was producing interactive software being shared nationwide.

As an example of the academicians history, take NCSA Mosaic (TM), copyright 1993. Whoops, I regularly carried a copy with me in the late 1980's in case a government computer did not have it installed. Mosaic is listed as the base software under Netscape and MS Internet Explorer under "Help" and "About...".


Why I reverted your changes to ARPANET and History of the Internet

Hello:

Sorry I had to revert your additions to this pages, but I am quite familiar with all the major published sources on the history of the Internet (Hafner, Abbate, etc.), as well as most of the online ones, and I have never heard of the bizarre theory you articulated. And yes, I am aware that the Air Force Office of Scientific Research has published a lot of declassified reports about ARPANET research, and I have read quite a number of them.

I ran a few Google searches and no historians have posted any indication that Air Force general Albert Clark had anything to do with Internet development. If his role was so important, it is quite likely by now that someone would have posted at least one reference to offline proof of his involvement. After all, it has become routine for teenagers and college undergraduates to do reports on the history of the Internet for their history classes.

If you know of a particular declassified report or memorandum that explicitly mentions Albert Clark and substantiates his involvement, please post a full citation, and then feel free to reinsert your assertions. Otherwise, if you have no proof, or the only proof you know of is still classified, I'm afraid your theories will have to stay off Wikipedia because of the Wikipedia:No original research policy.

--Coolcaesar 01:53, 14 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Just a note

Articles have to consist of more than an external link--see Wikipedia:Stubs for more info on writing good, but short, articles, even if you don't know much about the topic. Best wishes, Meelar (talk) 18:29, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

I've been looking through your contributions, and many of your articles are unformatted and hard to understand. Why not look at some featured articles to see how the articles should be formatted and written? Best wishes, Meelar (talk) 18:36, July 27, 2005 (UTC)