From: Patrick Jankowiak (recycler@swbell.net)
Date: Mon Nov 08 2004 - 15:59:09 PST
Those of the opinion that the internet, which is a means of
transporting information, is not part of the real world might
wish to peruse the pages of the book "The Victorian Internet", to
find that it began with telegraphy (or smoke signals and
semaphores, or even couriers using or not using vehicles, organic
or mechanical, military or otherwise, if you wish to go farther
back).
Therefore it is logical to postulate that the internet is as
real-world as carrying a shopping list or a photograph in an MV.
I will now put that in my pipe and smoke it, and invite all who
are not proscribed by either religion or the swearing of mighty
oaths to do the same.
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