[ih] astonishing patron saint of the Internet

[Joseph Touch]

There was an old text story “a reading from the book of byte” that went around in the early 80’s.

Something about seeing bits, grouping them into sets of 8, saying “let three be byte”, etc.

I have it buried somewhere.

Joe

> On Apr 14, 2021, at 9:07 AM, Dave Crocker via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> On 4/14/2021 8:05 AM, Miles Fidelman via Internet-history wrote:
>> Or, we could go ALL the way back:  "In the beginning, there was the word." :-)
> 
> to capture a salient aspect of that time in history, perhaps:
> 
> "In the beginning, there was the variable-length word."
> 
> d/
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