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No, that was me (and Al Gore). Peter had nothing to do with it.
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[mailto:bounce-techwr-l-177489 -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf Of Wade
Courtney
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 9:28 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: New TECHWR-L Poll Question
Did you invent the Internet too?
Happy Monday!!!!
=o)
Wade
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:17:27 -0500, Peter Neilson <neilson -at- alltel -dot- net>
wrote:
>
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:01:14 -0800, James Barrow <vrfour -at- earthlink -dot- net>
wrote:
>
> > The other 10% were not acted upon at the time I brought them up, but
> > later adopted when the stakeholders pulled their heads out of the
> > clouds...or other places better left unsaid:^)
>
> I sometimes wonder if I helped invent any of the ways things are now
> with suggestions I made eons ago. In 1969 I suggested that software
> ought to be able to read the model number and possibly the serial
> number of peripheral equipment. Didn't happen. We had to ask the
> user to identify the device via the keyboard. Now there's prug and
> pray. Did I start that? Who nose...
>
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Wade Courtney
President/Principal Writer
Sabio Publications Inc
www.sabioinc.com
MSN: wade_courtney
Yahoo: wcourtne
There are two pains in life, the pain of sacrifice and the pain of regret.
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