[ih] astonishing patron saint of the Internet

[Miles Fidelman]

And here I thought Al Gore was the Patron Saint of the Internet.  Or at 
least a major patron
(he did, after all, author the High Performance Computing Act that 
funded us all for quite some
time).

Cheers,

Miles

vinton cerf via Internet-history wrote:
> Dear Vint
>
> This Wednesday I am doing a brief presentation about my 1473 copy of
> Isidore of Seville. *Etymologiae* at a Zoom session of the Grolier Club.
>
> I came across this factoid which I share with you in case of the unlikely
> possibility that you were not aware of it.
>
> In 1997 Pope John Paul II declared Isidore of Seville the patron saint of
> the internet. Saint Isidore died in the year 636, long before the first
> host-to-host ARPANET connection in 1969. But Isidore did try to record
> everything ever known in an encyclopedia that was ultimately published
> after his death
>
> Cheers
>
> Gene
>
>
> Eugene S. Flamm, MD, FAANS, FACS, FASA
> Professor of Neurosurgery
> Chairman Emeritus
> Albert Einstein College of Medicine
> Montefiore Medical Center


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