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Re: Space Shuttle Costs
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 16 Dec 1998 16:55:09 GMT
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Fred Read <fred@corp.netcom.net[saynotospam].uk>
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Denzel Beachnut wrote:
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> To be honest I still have no idea what anyone is talking about, but:
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> If English is the unofficial language of the Internet, then perhaps the
> unofficial flavor of English should be American. After all, they invented the
> Internet.
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> --Denz (a Saudi)
Actually No!
* The Packet Switching technology that underlies the Internet
was developed at the National Physics Laboratory in England.
* The HyperText Transfer Protocol that underlies the World Wide
Web was invented by an Englishman at CERN (in Europe).
'Nuff Said?
--
If it ain't opinionated, it ain't Rich Teer.
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| Fred Read writes: > 'Nuff Said? Yes. Please stop posting on this off-topic topic, otherwise I will be forced to moderate the mailing list. (26 years ago, 16-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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| To be honest I still have no idea what anyone is talking about, but: If English is the unofficial language of the Internet, then perhaps the unofficial flavor of English should be American. After all, they invented the Internet. --Denz (a Saudi) (...) (26 years ago, 15-Dec-98, to lugnet.robotics)
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