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#1: Katydid (kmeifert) on Oct 19, 2007

Actually, I'm using Firefox, so I'd be here, and so would everybody else who detests that evil genius Bill Gates!

ok, it's just a icon, the Internet was the theme..I could have used firefox but I wanted to do something very simple for a change ;) :p :b

Yeah, gotta hate that evil bill and melinda gates foundation. Especially when you consider the groundwork he laid enabling things like Firefox to even exist.

NANEKI! Thank you for a good, not-too-huge for my screen Puzzle!

Your Welcome JC

Nice... and solved fine :o)

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation did not lay the foundation for Firefox.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation#Funding
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_and_Melinda_Gates_Foundation

I think the foundation and the enabling comments were two different things. As in: The B&MG foundation isn't so evil. Seperately, Gates' PCs helped popularize the Internet, which lead to Firefox.

Anyway, I like and use Firefox but don't see Gates as evil.

Nice and simple. Good job.
Thank you Naneki for a smaller one too! You've proven that you excel in both sizes. ^>^

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Wow that's pretty interesting, I didn't know how it all started. Sometimes I just take everyday things for granted. Thank you for your input, like I said before it is all very interesting. Your never too old to learn something new!

So.....Al Gore invented Mosaic?

Oh JC what would we ever do without you! :)

Actually, Al Gore sponsored the bill that provided funding to NCSA while NCSA Mosaic was being developed, so yeah, in a way Al Gore "invented" Mosaic.

It was the first bill he actually got passed, but he'd been by far the most vocal advocate of government investment in the Internet for a decade or so before that, in a manner similar to the way he now advocates for taking action on Climate Change issues, by giving geeky talks, writing articles, etc. If you ever heard the term "information superhighway" then you heard Al Gore's campaign for the Internet, that was the catch phrase he was pushing back in the 1980's, with it's connotations of infrastructure built by the government that would promote general prosperity.

For the first 30 years of it's existence, the Internet was entirely funded by the US government. Al Gore wasn't around in the beginning, but his advocacy probably had a lot to do with why the Internet kept getting funded strongly enough and long enough to be able to take off and be privatized. He really, truly was the first elected official to see the potential value of the Internet, and the only one to completely commit himself to trying to bring it into being.

No wonder nobody likes him. A politician with the vision to see beyond the latest polls is a terrifying entity.

Nice Jan. Thanks :)

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If you want to read way more of me talking about Al Gore inventing the internet, you could go to:

http://greatgreenroom.org/cgi-bin/bt/backtalk/wasabi/begin?item=11

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I use SAFARI so ?

From a purely technical point of view, I'm convinced Safari is the best browser around by a long shot. That doesn't mean it should be the one you should use however. Each browser has a slightly different user interface with different features, and different people may prefer different ones. Firefox has the richest supply of "plugins" that make it very customizable. IE is likely to give you the least trouble with incompatible web sites - not because it has the least bugs (it's actually bug city), but because every website is thoroughly tested against IE to make sure it works around all it's bugs. This is why developers hate IE, but it's no reason for users to hate IE.

Did you guys check out number 6124?

why 6124?

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Without the internet, I guess we'd be reading books a bit more.

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