Quoting ian glendinning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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.
You said "someone." I merely picked up on it. > 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. Yes. Stacked up one by one, created individual by individual. You might have one of those creations to your credit. I hope so. > 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 ;-) All power to the "guy" -- the individual -- who first made it possible to turn on a computer. :-) ------------------------------------------------- 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/
