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Paul Weaver wrote: > > Apparently "He [Simon] studied Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at > Exeter University, where he discovered the Internet in 1987 [...]" > > You learn something every day ;) I'm flattered to be listed as a famous Linux person - notorious locally perhaps. Studied ... hmm that might be marketing speak but the bit about the Internet is true, it was lurking on the fringes of the academic computing networks waiting to be found. See it wasn't invented by Al Gore it was there all along. It wasn't Internet protocol at first (at least not till you got to Princeton), but they fixed that in the vacation. I did briefly associate with some curious characters in Aberystwyth Uni whilst an undergraduate. These characters might loosely be described as friends of Alan Cox, but I only met the man himself in cyberspace as even then he was in Swansea. Of course then he mostly wrote adventure games, and called himself "Cardboard box", I don't know how many arms or heads he had. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.