[ih] astonishing patron saint of the Internet

[Vint Cerf]

wow - TMI!!!
v


On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 8:21 AM 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.
> >
> > 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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