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Thread #69276   Message #1175139
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
30-Apr-04 - 01:26 PM
Thread Name: BS: Was the internet ever predicted
Subject: RE: BS: Was the internet ever predicted
Got out of bed the wrong side Grab, I see, throwing out a totally gratuitous insult like that.

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Omar Khayyam anticipating the Internet, and the way computers like to hold on to stuff even when it's deleted:

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it