I think the point Platt, is no so much the someone who "invented" e-mail ... that's a whole series of evolving inventions, on top of many, many layers of clever inventions.
Most of those layers are (quite rightly) invisible and irrelevant (in any day to day sense) to the unsuspecting user. Invisible, irrelevant or not, we depend every day on that whole stack of creativity. Furthermore the guy that invented that "bootstrap" in machine code on the bare silicon (or a box of diode valves more likely), would never have had anything remotely like e-mail on his mind at the time. He probably thought, like Frankenstein, he was creating life itself, and would be very disappointed to see e-mail as the culmination of his creativity to date ;-) Ian On 3/21/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting ian glendinning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Marvel at the idea that someone worked out how to create the dynamic > > experience of an e-mail programme "running" on a dead piece of etched > > silicon, with no moving parts. > > Indeed I do marvel at the individual "someone" who invented e-mail. :-) > > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ > moq_discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
