[ih] Internet-history Digest, Vol 10, Issue 1

[the keyboard of geoff goodfellow]

the only tall man with a black shoe yours truly is familiar with -- in this
kinda "regard" -- would be the (1965-1970) Maxwell Smart (black) shoe
phone, viz.:

[image: image.png]

(hoping the above copy-and-pasted photo will came thru here, if not, it's
available at:
https://twitter.com/keyboardofGeoff/status/1260763728758202369/
<https://twitter.com/keyboardofGeoff/status/1260763728758202369/photo/1>)

On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 8:15 AM John Day <jeanjour at comcast.net> wrote:

> And the villain was TPC!  ;-)
>
> The Phone Company
>
> Do you also know The Tall Blonde Man with One Black Shoe?
> Another very funny movie with a very serious point.
>
> > On Jul 6, 2020, at 13:56, the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via
> Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> >
> > and let's not forget that in 1967 there was
> > The Science of Microelectronics
> > in *The President's Analyst, viz.: *
> > "the Cerebrum Communicator or the CC for short"
> > (for which there is an awesome demo clip) of at:
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuwF3dRJiS8
> >
> > for anyone who has not seen this seminal film, it's a MUST SEE! :D
> >
> > geoff
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 7:07 AM Don Hopkins via Internet-history <
> > internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> >
> >>> On Jul 6, 2020, at 17:25, Miles Fidelman via Internet-history <
> >> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 7/6/20 10:52 AM, John Gilmore via Internet-history wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>> I answered him that thirty years of the internet has been a
> spectacular
> >>>>> time of development. Can you imagine the word fighting the COVID-19
> >>>>> pandemic without the internet? If there were no internet, there could
> >> be
> >>>>> very little working from home, no online classes for students stuck
> at
> >>>>> home, no video communication with family and friends, much more
> >> loneliness,
> >>>> In 1992 John Perry Barlow called for "connecting every mind to every
> >>>> other mind in full-duplex broadband. ... The creation of ... a
> >>>> ubiquitous digital web, [for] ... telephone service, e-mail, software,
> >>>> faxes, ... 'video postcards', and, in time, High Definition Television
> >>>> as well as other media as yet barely imagined."  He called it The
> Great
> >>>> Work.
> >>>
> >>> Long before that, Licklider wrote:
> >>>
> >>> "The hope is that, in not too many years, human brains and computing
> >> machines will be coupled together very tightly, and that the resulting
> >> partnership will think as no human brain has ever thought and process
> data
> >> in a way not approached by the information-handling machines we know
> >> today."  (In "Man-Computer Symbiosis," 1960,
> >> https://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/psz/Licklider.html)
> >>>
> >>> And, of course, he's the one who wrote the famous "MEMORANDUM FOR:
> >> Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network," in 1963 (
> >>
> https://www.kurzweilai.net/memorandum-for-members-and-affiliates-of-the-intergalactic-computer-network
> >> ).
> >>>
> >>> Miles Fidelman
> >>
> >>
> >> Even longer before that, Mary Shelley wrote:
> >>
> >> “It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on
> that
> >> account we shall be more attached to one another.”
> >>
> >> And a bit later, Mel Brooks wrote:
> >>
> >> "Are you saying that I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half
> foot
> >> long, fifty-four inch wide GORILLA? IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE TELLING ME?”
> -Dr.
> >> Frederick Frankenstein
> >>
> >> -Don
> >>
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> >>
> >
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> > Geoff.Goodfellow at iconia.com
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