First Internet message and ...

[Richard Pope]

Jim,
     Well said and Thank-you!
GOD Bless and Thanks,
rich!

On 11/24/2019 10:37 PM, Jim Manley via cctalk wrote:
> Don't spoil the spirit of excitement over this sort of thing, even if they
> get every detail wrong.  You weren't present for this event, and even
> "expert" historians routinely also get a _lot_ of things wrong.  I lived
> through this era, and have spent the last two decades conveying the
> importance of such things to current-day scientific and engineering
> researchers, as well as the public, as a volunteer senior docent and
> restoration engineer at the Computer History Museum, as well as a STEM
> teacher.
>
> I'd commit some high crimes and misdemeanors if I could get any of my high
> school and college students to exhibit even one percent of this level of
> excitement about the stupendous things that happened just in 1969.  Beyond
> the first successful remote login between heterogeneous computers via a
> standard interface (not the first time a "message" was sent over the
> "Internet"), that included the Apollo 11 Moon landing, the first Concorde
> test flight, the debut of the Boeing 747, the first version of UNIX being
> developed, the first microprocessor being produced, etc., etc., etc.
>
> It's not just about fawning over the past accomplishments for nostalgic
> reasons, but, to also learn from the mistakes that led to the advancements,
> and there are many more errors than there are successes.  It has to be that
> way, but, we don't celebrate the goof-ups and we absolutely should - let
> those who have never failed cast the first stone, as it were.
>
> One of my special tours at the CHM is "Mistakes That Kept Getting Repeated"
> because, as we now know, those who don't learn the lessons of history are
> doomed to repeat them.  It's not so simple though, because history doesn't
> exactly repeat itself, but it does rhyme, and we have to be observant and
> clever enough to recognize the meter as well as the lyrics.  Complaining
> about the small stuff doesn't contribute to that and should be avoided so
> that we don't scare off the enthusiastic newcomers and others not so
> steeped in the details as we are.
>
> All the Best,
> Jim
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 5:11 PM allison via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
>> OK, this is gibberish, word salad, English words mangled meaning.
>> Pick a topic and get concise.
>>
>> Gah,
>>