Voldemort as History
Susan McGee
Schlobin at aol.com
Tue Oct 10 04:36:39 UTC 2000
No: HPFGUIDX 3099
--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Caius Marcius" <coriolan at w...>
wrote:
>
> The personal computer
> > (imagined by anti-war activists), the internet, the web, have
> > made knowledge much more accessible.
>
> The anti-war activists may have imagined it, but who actually built
it?
> "War is the father of all" wrote the old Greek Wizard Heraclitus.
Did not
> the Internet make its first incarnation (just as Voldy first
appeared as
> mere Tom Riddle) as Arpnet, a fully funded project of every
liberals'
> Slytherin House, the Pentagon?
>
But I did NOT say the internet was imagined by anti-war activists,
I said the personal COMPUTER was imagined and BUILT by members of the
counter culture as a REACTION to the government monopoly on
computers....
I won't insult anyone's knowledge by posting a history of the Mac
computer here.
Susan
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