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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