[ih] astonishing patron saint of the Internet

[John Day]

I will still contend that if compiling an encyclopedia (all human knowledge) is the qualifying criteria (which actually seems to confuse a *use* of the Internet with the Internet) Denis Diderot is more 'our kinda guy.’  ;-)

> On Apr 12, 2021, at 08:20, wfms--- via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> Perhaps an urban legend:
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> https://aleteia.org/2020/05/02/a-patron-saint-of-the-internet-unofficially-though/
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> or just not officially.
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> On Sun, 11 Apr 2021, vinton cerf via Internet-history wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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>> Cheers
>> 
>> Gene
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>> Eugene S. Flamm, MD, FAANS, FACS, FASA
>> Professor of Neurosurgery
>> Chairman Emeritus
>> Albert Einstein College of Medicine
>> Montefiore Medical Center
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