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[ NNSquad ] Re: How history warps even in our own lifetimes
Perhaps he saw this Facebook page:
http://j.mp/dNykrF (Inventor of the Internet / Facebook)
And of course, the Internet was originally announced
by Julian Assange ...
--Lauren--
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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:23:56 []
Subject: Re: [ NNSquad ] How history warps even in our own lifetimes
To: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
+1
I was startled last week when I heard a UK politician saying he was
proud that the Internet had been invented in the UK in 1990 by Tim
Berners Lee. Applause from the crowd. As for me, I just turned the TV
off. Too much rubbish for one day. :-)
Kind regards,
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Le 13/02/2011 18:20, Lauren Weinstein a écrit :
> This case isn't a big deal, but still perhaps worthy of passing note.
>
> BCS -- The Chartered Institute for IT -- has a series of short videos
> posted about "Information Pioneers" -- in this case Ada Lovelace, Alan
> Turing, Hedy Lamarr [no, not Hedley!], Sir Clive Sinclair, and Sir Tim
> Berners-Lee. (It appears that having a "Sir" prefix on your name
> helps gain entrance to this list.)
>
> The videos are aimed at mass audiences, and are a bit too
> stylized for my taste.
>
> http://j.mp/hNPN7I (Brain Pickings)
>
> But a line in the video for Sinclair caught my attention. It noted
> that by the late 70s, most computers were "the size of a bus and
> had 100s of valves [tubes]" ...
>
> That isn't the 70s I remember. Tubes were long gone, and you could
> pack a bunch of PDP-11s into the average bus. Even a couple of IBM
> 360s, as long as you didn't pile in too many peripherals as well.
>
> Point is, the video is stating historical inaccuracies as fact,
> an all too common problem not only in the technology sphere but
> across the history of mankind generally.
>
> I've always assumed that most of what we think we know about history
> is at least partly inaccurate -- due to purposeful manipulation ("by
> the victors"), the "telephone" effect, and other reasons.
>
> But to see how much of history -- that I've lived through myself -- is
> already becoming distorted is fascinating, and more than a bit
> depressing.
>
> How long before texts of the future assert that the Internet was
> invented by Mark Zuckerberg to Serve the State?
>
> --Lauren--
> NNSquad Moderator
>