"Hundreds of different networks, run by different companies and using different technologies, all connected together in a giant 'network of networks,' providing telephone and interactive digital video to almost every American."
Vice President Al Gore, Jr.
Address to the ITU, 21 March 1994
"The NII will provide all Americans with the information they need, when they need it and where they need it, at an affordable cost."
Dr. Jack Gibbons, Presidential Science Advisor
ARPA HPCC Symposium, 15 March 1994