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Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 09:05:26 -0700
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "Michael R. Williams" <williams@CPSC.UCALGARY.CA>
Subject: Re: CM> First ?
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>Struck me that many of us are interested in computing "firsts." An excellent run-down of some historical "firsts":
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>http://www.apollo.co.uk/a/Lexikon/who-was-first.html
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>Cheers
>BW
Well, I looked over this list - and it appears quite accurate!
HOWEVER, it just proves what historians already know - if you add enough adjectives to anything it can be a "first". After all this is "the first time I have replied to this question on the Community Memory server on or before March 10, 1997" - perhaps that should also go into the record book.
Real historians really don't trust claims of being "first" in anything (just like real men really do eat quiche)!
Mike Williams
--------------------------------------------------- Dr. Michael R. Williams
Editor-in-Chief, Annals of the History of Computing Department of Computer Science
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
Canada T2N 1N4
Ph: (403) 220-6781
Fax: (403) 284-4707
email: williams@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "Michael R. Williams" <williams@CPSC.UCALGARY.CA>
Subject: Re: CM> First ?
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
>Struck me that many of us are interested in computing "firsts." An excellent run-down of some historical "firsts":
>
>http://www.apollo.co.uk/a/Lexikon/who-was-first.html
>
>Cheers
>BW
Well, I looked over this list - and it appears quite accurate!
HOWEVER, it just proves what historians already know - if you add enough adjectives to anything it can be a "first". After all this is "the first time I have replied to this question on the Community Memory server on or before March 10, 1997" - perhaps that should also go into the record book.
Real historians really don't trust claims of being "first" in anything (just like real men really do eat quiche)!
Mike Williams
--------------------------------------------------- Dr. Michael R. Williams
Editor-in-Chief, Annals of the History of Computing Department of Computer Science
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
Canada T2N 1N4
Ph: (403) 220-6781
Fax: (403) 284-4707
email: williams@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
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