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What is novel about "the internet"? We've been sending data over telegraph wires for nearly 200 years. The Internet is just someone else's cable.
by votepaunchy 9y ago
What is novel about "the internet"? We've been sending data over telegraph wires for nearly 200 years. The Internet is just someone else's cable.
- mbrumlow 9y agoThat was my point, you just went back further in history than I did :p
- freehunter 9y agoThen your point is wrong. What's so novel about CPUs? We've had sand since the Earth was first formed! I swear the tech industry has more luddites than the Amish.
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- hyperbovine 9y agoThe Amish are not luddites.
- freehunter 9y agoThey are not capital-L official Luddites, but they could be classified as colloquial lowercase-L luddites.
- gue5t 9y agoPacket switching and distributed routing protocols.
- Florin_Andrei 9y agoIt's turtles all the way down to the Big Bang.
- warent 9y agoSince when are cables such a unique idea? The telegraph is nothing more than a large number of fancy carrier pigeons as a service, which we've had since the 12th century at least.