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24 Oct 11 - 02:02 AM (#3243780) Subject: BS: Happy Birthday Internet From: JohnInKansas Okay, not this internet, but the original, first one in the US(?). 150 years ago, a primitive Internet united the USA Monday marks the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental telegraph. From sea to sea, it electronically knitted together a nation that was simultaneously tearing itself apart, North and South, in the Civil War. On Oct. 24, 1861, with the push of a button, California's chief justice, Stephen J. Field, wired a message from San Francisco to President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, congratulating him on the transcontinental telegraph's completion that day. He added the wish that it would be a "means of strengthening the attachment which binds both the East and the West to the Union." A rudimentary version of the Internet — not much more advanced than two tin cans and a string — had been born. But it worked, and it grew. [end quotes] All I can add is most of us here found it quite exciting once the news made out to the farm. John |
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24 Oct 11 - 02:55 AM (#3243782) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Internet From: GUEST,999 It was an exciting invention for sure, JiK. I'd just got used to smoke signals and pony express and sure 'nuff along came that instrument of the devil. Folks just don't know when to leave well enough alone. |
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24 Oct 11 - 09:59 AM (#3243907) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Internet From: Rapparee I agree with 999. It killed off penmanship and letter writing as well as putting scriveners and many other people out of business. |
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24 Oct 11 - 11:51 AM (#3243984) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Internet From: kendall My Cousin, Samuel, did good, eh? |
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25 Oct 11 - 12:10 AM (#3244320) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Internet From: open mike thanks, re-posted to face book. |
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25 Oct 11 - 09:38 PM (#3244848) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Internet From: gnu You've come a long way baby! Each and every step along the way to mass communication brings us closer to each other. Whether that will actually help to solve the problems we all share is yet to be seen, but it's a step in the right direction. |
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25 Oct 11 - 11:02 PM (#3244876) Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Internet From: Rapparee The first transcontinental message was: BRB LOL |