Actually the idea of interconnected computers came only 8 years after the Wire Act in 1969. I believe it was called ARPANET. Greek you can correct me if I’m wrong on this. The www version of the Internet is what came about in the early 90’s.
To the point of aiding and abetting. If you read the first post in this thread (thanks Dom, it’s quite informative), you see that this current legislations fails to make anything illegal that wasn’t illegal already. So, what exactly would a US based webmaster be aiding and abetting?
Furthermore, to the articles point about jurisdiction, if you are hosting your site on a server outside of the US, then apparently there isn’t a problem, the bill seems to state that the honus is on US ISPs to police the sites they are hosting. Finally, how does this even matter if the sites that you are linking to aren’t explicitly illegal anyway? At worst, online sportsbooks are illegal, but that still has yet to be proven.