On 23Oct11:0924-0400, Rick Troth wrote:

> The web burst onto the scene. Thankfully HTTP and HTML have tagging
> capabilities, so for most consumers ... well ... they have no idea the work
> the techies have gone thru.

And to think IBM's C-suite thought it was a good idea in
the early '80s to get an ASCII desktop on everyone's desk.
They, too, seem to have had no idea.  Nor the Watsons when
they decided to eschew ASCII for the S/360.  Though in
fairness, they likely didn't expect EBCDIC to depend on
the IBM-manufactured hardware involved.
-- 
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May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly!

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 You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then.
 Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe."
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