On Oct 24, 2010, at 12:17 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
"Everything that has occurred in Silicon Valley in the last couple of
decades also occurred in the 1850s. Anyone who thinks that wild-ass
high
tech venture capitalism is a late-20th-century California phenomenon
needs
to read about the maniacs who built the first transatlantic cable
projects.
The only things that have changed since then are that the stakes
have gotten
smaller, the process more bureaucratized, and the personalities less
interesting."
go find "The Victorian Internet" for a nice hostory of that time
<http://tomstandage.wordpress.com/books/the-victorian-internet/>
--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
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