[asterisk-users] "Happy Birthday Asterisk"

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Friday 07 December 2007 09:56:56 Bill Andersen wrote:
> Philip Prindeville wrote:
> > So I'd venture to say that by August, the Internet will really be *30*
> > years old.
>
> As Al Gore was born in 1948, I can see that the Internet could be as old
> as 30, but not much more.  35 years ago would put him at 25 years old.
> And inventing the whole Internet at 25 is pretty ambicious, even for Al!

In actuality, most people produce all of the great inventions of their life by
the time they hit 30.  Einstein, for one, produced his great theory of
relativity at the ripe old age of 26.  Mark Spencer came up with Asterisk at
age 22.  So this idea that 25 is too young to produce a great achievement
is baloney.

BTW, Al Gore was credited with introducing the legislation that permitted
commercial organizations onto the network that would become known as
the Internet.  So in a way, he did create the Internet, by changing the
circumstances you would have to have in order to access this decentralized
computer network.  If you doubt the importance of having commercial
organizations on the network, consider where the Internet would be, if
Amazon, eBay, and Linux Support Services (d/b/a Digium) had never been
allowed onto the network.

-- 
Tilghman