The information age

Ed C. edcross at gmail.com
Wed Nov 27 09:54:10 CST 2019


Add to that: History is rewritten by power.

On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 4:23 AM Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Nov 2019, Jim Manley via cctalk wrote:
> > " ... like to write their own version"
> > It's a good thing no one else ever wrote their own version of history ...
> > oh, wait, _everyone_ does that!  They once called it "To the victor goes
> > the spoils (of victory)."
>
> "History is written by the victors" is often attributed to Winston
> Churchill, but its origin is really unkown.
>
>
> > It's "lawsuit", not "law suite", BTW.  Slingers of code and CAD layouts
> > have to get every single character and trace absolutely correct.
>
> Sometimes it becomes a suite of suits filed by the suits.
>


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