[ih] astonishing patron saint of the Internet

[wfms at wfms.org]

Perhaps an urban legend:

https://aleteia.org/2020/05/02/a-patron-saint-of-the-internet-unofficially-though/

or just not officially.

On Sun, 11 Apr 2021, 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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