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...Time to let the nerd out:


One for all the nostalgic, geeky, computer freaks out there (You're out there somewhere, I know I'm not alone )

A people's history of the Internet:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/in ... et-arpanet



...For all those who actively avoid E&C, (but may have forgotten why ) I present the top 10 internet laws and rules:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/n ... o-Poe.html



And finally - a truly prophetic view of the future from Time Magazine ...written in 1978:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... -1,00.html


Enjoy!

Well, regarding the laws of the internet, I found out these to be too true:

7. Pommer’s Law
Proposed by Rob Pommer on rationalwiki.com in 2007, this states: “A person's mind can be changed by reading information on the internet. The nature of this change will be from having no opinion to having a wrong opinion.”

DeMyer's Law #2
The Second Law states: “Anyone who posts an argument on the internet which is largely quotations can be very safely ignored, and is deemed to have lost the argument before it has begun.

^^^the reason I never get involved in E&C long long posts^^^

and the contributed one I liked best:

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The more uneducated the comment, the more likely the poster will state they possess advanced college degree(s). Corollary; The less a poster understands something, the more likely they will state numerous years professional experience.

Time Magazine, 1978 wrote:Leisure time, greatly increased, will be greatly enriched.

Boy talk about a facepalm for just how wrong an article could possibly be.

Well, it's better for the guy to be writing that kind of article than being hooked on drugs...

Gekko71 wrote:...Time to let the nerd out:

And finally - a truly prophetic view of the future from Time Magazine ...written in 1978:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... -1,00.html

Enjoy!

Thanks Gekko. It's always fun to read these things; as hilarious for what they leave out as for what goes into the article.

Poet-Novelist Carol Spearin Mc-Cauley notes in her book Computers and Creativity (Praeger) that the well-programmed computer is freed from "the confines of English grammar, syntax and common usage ... The machine's lack of shame, so to speak, frees it to express many things that a writer, by habit used to excluding or censoring the ungrammatical, awkward or ambiguous, would not consider."

See - it predicted discussion boards.

10. The Law of Exclamation
First recorded in an article by Lori Robertson at FactCheck.org in 2008, this states: \"The more exclamation points used in an email (or other posting), the more likely it is a complete lie. This is also true for excessive capital letters.\"

this made me smile.

Krom wrote:

Time Magazine, 1978 wrote:Leisure time, greatly increased, will be greatly enriched.

Boy talk about a facepalm for just how wrong an article could possibly be.

It was true in the fertile crescent. Once people started farming they had free time to experiment with technology. Including better homes. Leisure time can be spent doing lots of work. Also look at Benjamin Franklin's life. He some had free time to mess around with technology.

I'm reading about worm. It's interesting.

Ferno wrote:

10. The Law of Exclamation
First recorded in an article by Lori Robertson at FactCheck.org in 2008, this states: "The more exclamation points used in an email (or other posting), the more likely it is a complete lie. This is also true for excessive capital letters."

this made me smile.

Hmm...

I would say there is an inverse relationship between Iq points and number of excessive exclamation points used by a person.