Monthly Archives: September 2022

The Right Address

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You received this email because 51 years ago Ray Tomlinson spent a few hours messing around. Tomlinson was a computer programmer working with ARPANET, the predecessor to the Internet.  In 1971 a whopping 15 computers had been linked to each other.  Ray thought it might be useful one day to send messages between computers. The trick was to figure out a way… Read more »

Real Men Ask for Help

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Real men don’t use parachutes.  That, at least, was the official position of America’s military commanders during World War One.  The “Great War” (1914-1918) was the first time that airplanes were used in combat, or that anyone even imagined they had strategic military value. When Captain Eddie Rickenbacker – America’s “ace of aces” with 26 confirmed aerial victories – first squeezed into the… Read more »