Researchers Explore Scrapping Internet

April 13th, 2007 By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer

(AP) -- Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the Internet, some university researchers with the federal government's blessing want to scrap all that and start over.

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