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Comment by rayiner

16 hours ago

The kind that invented the internet and the airplane and the microchip and put a man on the moon.

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callmeal  15 hours ago

> The kind that invented the internet

Seriously did not expect a MiniTel reference here. Vive Le France‽

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel

  • rayiner  13 hours ago

    ARPAnet had already been out a decade by then. TCP/IP was standardized the same year MiniTel came out.

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