@jeffjarvis
There’s that misplaced ALT tag getting in the way of type again. Luckily, I could click your post to see the year of the World’s Fair. I was there. :)) It was magical.
I am NOT dismissing the importance of the ALT tag. Just get some better coding in there @Mastodon, @gargron, @stux and position it differently. I’m done bitching at Mastodon today.
@sepfeiffer I did put up alt text. Here it is, part 1:
The internet would not be possible without the technologies forged at Bell Labs: the transistor, the laser, information theory, Unix, communications satellites, fiber optics, advances in chip design, cellular phones, compression, microphones, talkies, the first digital art, and artificial intelligence — ...
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part 2:
... not to mention, of course, many advances in networks and the telephone, including the precursor to the device we all carry and communicate with today: the Picturephone, displayed as a futuristic fantasy at the 1964 World’s Fair.
@jeffjarvis Yes, but it would have also prevented the creation of the Internet. We’d still be doing circuit switching, metered billing, time-division multiplexing and dropping SONET rings all over humanity if their communication systems theory won. Ethernet, TCP/IP, the Internet Router, and the IETF came out of an entirely different tradition.
@jeffjarvis British Telecom (General Post office back then) invented the wireless phone in 1896, They also invented the programmable computer with Colossus - so yes Bell Labs was important but it takes a Village to get where we are :)
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