To: NicknamedBob; Monkey Face
Though the story is nearly a hundred years old, I haven’t been able to find the text on the internet.That is because they didn't have an Internet a hundred years ago, silly!
1,149 posted on
04/13/2008 3:56:32 PM PDT by
fanfan
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To: fanfan; NicknamedBob
That is because they didn't have an Internet a hundred years ago, silly! Oh yes they did!
Oh course, they hadn't invented packet-switching, packet fragmentation, TCP/IP, HTTP and web browsers yet so it was a little limited. And it notes there wasn't sufficient R&Dfunding to develop mobile routers to speed deployment of the network.
Some things never change.
1,156 posted on
04/13/2008 4:15:36 PM PDT by
sionnsar
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