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The News Of Tomorrow, Today
Internet History
Matt Novak
Fifty years ago today, on October 29, 1969, the internet was born. It was a humble beginning—a single login from a computer terminal at University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) to the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in the Bay Area. But it was a tiny baby step that would…
Before sharable internet jokes were even called memes, they lived on YTMND—which appears to have met its end.
In the 1940s, as the Italian Jesuit priest Father Roberto Busa studied “the verbal system” of Thomas Aquinas, he wondered if, perhaps, there was “any gadget” that could help him develop a concordance — an alphabetical listing of all words written by the 13th century philosopher saint, complete with conjunctions,…
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