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Re: OT DEFINITELY OT: RE: Dark-Side of the Tech-com world!
Subject:Re: OT DEFINITELY OT: RE: Dark-Side of the Tech-com world! From:Annamaria Profit <inteltek -at- erols -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 25 Oct 2000 17:34:01 -0400
hehehe Chasity,
You're both right! Brent was being both sarcastic and correct. He was
talking about the Dept of Defense's 1969 invention of the Internet (no
matter what Al Gore says!) I don't know about body parts though, unless
he means the body bags home from Viet Nam. It was a dark and unsettling
time, but much creativity was spawned fom the chaos. One day we will
write the definitive book of the Origins of the Internet--together, by
committee, just like all our other tech projects!!
chasity mcwilliams wrote:
> I thought this poster was making a funny. I don't think
> anyone would say something like this unless it was a joke.
> The tone is way too sarcastic for that.
>
Brent wrote:
> Didn't you know that back in the 50s, before IBM and UNIVAC
> shoved their PC crap up our wazoos, convicted murderers sat
> around in dark basements, tables piled high with
> dismembered corpses, while architecting the technology that
> today we take for granted?
>
> Engineers teamed up for cross-country killing sprees,
> producing a vast array of body parts as well as products
> that fueled today's IT revolution.
>
> Piece!
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