29 Oct
2019
29 Oct
'19
5:21 p.m.
> The first "internet" packet was
certainly a significant event.
On Tue, 29 Oct 2019, Paul Koning wrote:
Indeed. So "remote communication between
heterogeneous computers" would
probably be a good description.
not so sure, . . . I think that there had been others. BUT, first with
the IP protocol, . . .
I'm not sure it's "bogus" but you
have to understand the qualifiers.
Columbus is a good example, because it's well known that other Europeans
traveled to America quite some time before he did. However, those
earlier visits made no lasting impression on history, while the one
Columbus made did.
so, . . .
"first" means earliest that WE are aware of, . . .
"first" means the one that our schoolbooks talk about, . . .
Being in the history books may mean "most important", but not "first";
the
textbooks in the schools are astonishingly inaccurate. And, yes, some of
them are going to say that Steve Jobs invented computers.
But it was first in the same sense that the Vikings
were first to
America.
There were some Asians? quite a bit earlier. The residents did not evolve
here.