Computer Junkies, is there a second Internet?

SemiCharmedQuark

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Tue Oct-12-04 08:36 PM
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Computer Junkies, is there a second Internet?

A dingus in my Theo class said today while we were discussing the debate:

"Technically, there is a second internet, he wasn't wrong"

Am I just horribly misinformed?

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CaOs

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Tue Oct-12-04 08:37 PM
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1. The FBI intranet

there must be rumors of a draft there too

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LoZoccolo

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Tue Oct-12-04 08:38 PM
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2. Yes.

There is an Internet II.

I'll go look for a link.

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LoZoccolo

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Tue Oct-12-04 08:39 PM
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4. Here.

http://www.internet2.edu

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SemiCharmedQuark

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Tue Oct-12-04 08:39 PM
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6. Thanks

Edited on Tue Oct-12-04 08:41 PM by SemiCharmedQuark

But yeah, I doubt the chimp would be able to know this.

1.) It involves education
and
2.) I'm shocked he found the first one. Give a infinite amount of chimps an infinite amount of computers and they'll write the world's greatest novel I guess.

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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf

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Tue Oct-12-04 08:39 PM
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3. Yes.

There is a relatively smaller and very private high-speed(incredibly so...) Internet that is accessible only to universities and scientific researchers.

Don't worry: Chimpy barely knows his own name. He wouldn't have known that.

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XanaDUer

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Tue Oct-12-04 08:39 PM
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5. Yes.

Bush is still an idiot, however.

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TexasSissy

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Tue Oct-12-04 08:43 PM
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7. I think the 2nd internet is built into the hydrogen cars that * invented.

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TexasSissy

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Tue Oct-12-04 08:43 PM
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8. To answer your question seriously: No, there is no 2nd internet.

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cheshire

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Tue Oct-12-04 08:44 PM
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9. I hear foreign countries have a different one. LOL

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Endangered Specie

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Tue Oct-12-04 08:47 PM
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10. well there is ftp, http, .com, .net, .edu....

;)

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SemiCharmedQuark

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Tue Oct-12-04 08:49 PM
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11. I am so ashamed I didn't know this.

Bad Bad Steph...you're on par with Chimpy for intelligence! Except he apparently know about this second internet. :dunce:

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RafterMan

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Tue Oct-12-04 09:06 PM
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16. Yes, there's a second internet

but were there rumors of a draft on it?

Remember the full quote.

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gmoney

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Tue Oct-12-04 08:49 PM
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12. I think W. was searching for the word "site" or "website"

...but didn't know the word, so just ended up with "internet s..."

But the second internet IS made of wood, based in Poland

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toddaa

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Tue Oct-12-04 08:50 PM
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13. Technically? yes

It's called Abilene and it's a basically a consortium of universities, businesses, and government agencies developing a network for ultrahigh speed collaborative research. It falls under the umbrella of the Internet2 project. Check it out here -> http://abilene.internet2.edu/

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Heath.Hunnicutt

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Tue Oct-12-04 08:52 PM
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14. Yes, but that doesn't make Bush correct.

The Internet II exists, and IPv6 exists, and government networks exist.

But that is silliness. Bush was talking about something that the average person has access to. Suggesting that people go look on the Internets is stupid, not technically correct. Suggesting to a computer science person something similar might make sense.

I guess basically the president doesn't get to be correct by accident. The guy defending his statement is probably unswervable.

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lanlady

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Tue Oct-12-04 08:53 PM
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15. I teach Internet technology--

--and what you do have is a number of large, special purpose networks out there, such as the Pentagon's NIPRNet and SIPRNet (NIPR is unclassified, SIPR is for classified). But these don't qualify as 2nd or 3rd "internets" unless you're a clueless, knowledge-challenged guy named Dubya.

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Waverley_Hills_Hiker

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Tue Oct-12-04 09:10 PM
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17. the evil opposite of the internet...the Anti-net.!

Moowhahaha!

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