<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Bill Ricker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>But you are correct that TELEX/TWX/Autodin, and the WesternUnion bicyclist/telegraphic hybid network, and Marconi radiograms were all a prior art that may have and should have informed early email development even if it was called 'mail'. </div>
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<div></div></font></span></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>I watched (via webcast) Tim Wu speak at the recent Legal Hackathon at Brooklyn Law School. His theme, based on his Master Switch book, was that many inventions are achieved by amateurs or outsiders as a result of unconstrained thinking, something impossible in incumbents.. IIRC he gave the example of Bell and the telephone - saying the telegraph incumbents ignored the whole idea of voice over wire because a) they thought it an impractical gimmick, but more importantly their conviction that residential telegraph terminals were the future. Wu: "in other words, email".</div>
<div><br></div><div>Weren't electric text communications popularly known as "cables" in the early 20th C?</div><div><br></div><div>j</div>-- <br>---------------------------------------------------------------<br>
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