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Old 19-June-2008, 11:25 PM
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The ultimate Steampunk invention was a network proposed by a Belgium scientist in 1934, over 11 years before the first stored-memory electronic computer, ENIAC, was invented by a team working for the U.S. military.

In place of computers, it would have featured hyperlinked index cards and electric telescopes directly imaging documents and transmitting them for viewing across telegraph wires. The network would have been capable of transmitting audio, video, and text messages and allow users to communicate in real time.

Imagine how different the world would have been had the Internet been invented before the computer..

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/sc...hp&oref=slogin
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Imagine how different the world would have been had the Internet been invented before the computer..
And 14 years before the birth of Al Gore!



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And 14 years before the birth of Al Gore!
Except Gore didn't say he did.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp

Just keeping misnomers to a minimum.
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Too late. The Al Gore story is now common knowledge even though it isn't true.
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Read Victorian novels, or the Sherlock Holmes stories. Frequent references to several mail deliveries every day, or to exchanges of telegrams within the day. OK, no means of searching the British Library from your smoke filled study, but no spam and no e-viruses either. Floreat Victoriana!

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I have always been impressed by this nineteenth century fax machine
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Made of cast iron and standing more than 2 m high, this primitive, but effective machine worked as follows. The sender wrote a message on a sheet of tin in non-conducting ink. The sheet was then fixed to a curved metal plate. The stylus of the transmitter scanning an original document by moving across its parallel lines (three lines per millimetre). The signals were carried by telegraph to the marked out the message in Prussian blue ink, the colour produced by a chemical reaction, as the paper was soaked in potassium ferrocyanide. To ensure that both needles scanned at exactly the same rate, two extremely accurate clocks were used to trigger a pendulum which, in turn, was linked to gears and pulleys that controlled the needles.
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Too late. The Al Gore story is now common knowledge even though it isn't true.
Sad isn't it. There will always be people who believe anecdotal stuff; like that or the moon hoax believers.
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Next you're gonna tell me that Dan Quayle really didn't claim people in Latin America spoke Latin.

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Snopes clears that up too. (But there's plenty of real Quaylisms further down on this page, including one about Mars.)
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Next you're gonna tell me that Dan Quayle really didn't claim people in Latin America spoke Latin.
and i suppose GW Bush never uttered the word "strategery"..

just think of how great it would have been if the first president Bush hadn't picked Quayle as VP and GW chose him instead of Cheney.. that there would have been comdey gold, folks..
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