Re: Recumbent Basketball & Other Pastimes
Leonard H. Tower Jr. (tower@ai.mit.edu)
Wed, 25 Nov 92 01:05:22 EST
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 12:09:20 EST
From: robert@whiplash.er.usgs.gov (Robert Holder)
It's incredible to me that most or all of the information about
the pioneers of the "new electronic frontier" (if I may be so
sensationalistic) will be anecdotes which are gradually forgotten
until just a few are recorded long after the fact. The irony for
me is that this is happening in the very area where we are seeing
historic advances in the design and use of these information
gathering and recording tools, the computers.
It will not just be anecdotes. There is alot else out there:
- most of the articles posted on USENET have been perserved on
electronic media. They have even been recently published on CD-ROM.
- and many of the mailing lists used to "manage" USENET that
are off-line from USENET have archives that have been perserved.
So any serious scholar will be able to consult gigabytes of source
material.
enjoy -len
Member, League for Programming Freedom. Ask: lpf@uunet.uu.net
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