[ih] How Plato Influenced the Internet

[Dave Crocker]

On 8/23/2021 7:12 AM, John Day via Internet-history wrote:
> It is not uncommon in the history of technology (it has been observed back several centuries) that it isn’t so much direct transfer of technology but more someone brings back a story along the lines of, ‘I saw this thing that did thus and so and kind of looks like t.’


At the Munich 'IETF' meeting in 1982 - Vint announced he was leaving 
Arpa.  I don't remember whether he said he'd be going to MCI, though 
that meeting was when he recruited me for the MCI Mail project.

Anyhow, his announcement included the comment that technology does not 
transfer.  People do.


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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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