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So what did Saint Isidore suffer to become the patron saint of the Internet? Get trolled?

• rzzzt 8y ago
  56k dial-up connection falling back to 9.6kbps due to line noise.
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• tim333 8y ago
  He seems to have pioneered an early version of Wikipedia >His fame after his death was based on his Etymologiae, an etymological encyclopedia which assembled extracts of many books from classical antiquity that would have otherwise been lost.
  • taurath 8y ago
    It became so popular that the originals weren’t though highly enough to be copied, and were lost. Wonder if there’s any parallels here. That time as Christianity was forming itself is so interesting to look at if you were raised in a particular sect - the idea that there is any truly singular deity-preferred way to live seems laughable given how many differences of opinion there was even in the earliest church - frequently the only justification is that because a set of ideas succeeded it must be right, in a sort of might makes right sense.