18 Dec
1998
18 Dec
'98
3:34 a.m.
Ok, but this is true for almost all things - when
they
come to broad audience, there is at least some 30 to
50 years of thinking and development before - Telephone,
networking, computers, cars, steam engine, what ever you
want.
Exactly! That is one of the reasons why I generally do not like "which
came first" arguments (plenty of those on this list!). Just about
everything has roots in something else.
Just ignoring the fact that all lines
between exchanges are already digital, and even before
ISDN exchange to exchange connection have been build
as time or chanel multiplexing over single wires.
And that the term "email" is a bit off as well, as nearly all Internet
traffic goes over fibre for over 99% of its way. Omail, maybe?
I don't know, if I should laugh or cry about this
ignorance.
Only because they have stone age phones within their home
they belive the system behind is also stone age - and vice
versa ... *With an Pentium II chip all colours are brighter
and sounds are better ... '
Generally, history revisionists are full of bunk, but there is a slight
thread of truth to what some of them say. It only takes one loudmouth
marketing person to start a campaign that becomes the "truth" in a short
time.
William Donzelli
william(a)ans.net