On 10/20/21 10:30, Mel Beckman wrote:
Owen,

LOL! Yeah, and in 1838 Samuel Morse’s telegraph system used electric impulses to transmit encoded messages over a wire to Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown, New Jersey. Was/ that /the Internet?

Nope. And it wasn't even the first digital encoding of text. Braille preceded it, and arguably semaphore.

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