2) I saw some issue of Rolling Stone the other day that had an article about the guy who invented the World Wide Web. I had no idea what his name was. And actually, I still don't. How is it possible that here we have the World Wide Web, arguably the single biggest innovation of the last 50 years or more, and we have no idea who the inventor is but I have the name "Eli Whitney" branded on my fucking brain? I can't scratch my balls without hearing the name Robert Fulton, yet for all I know the dude who invented the World Wide Web could be in my "Where are all the Fuckpigs?" chat room and I'd have no idea. - XMASTIME*Here's an interview with Ray Tomlinson, who invented a little something called email. Something else that has fundamentally changed the way we live our lives, and I couldn't give his name if my life depended on it.
* also dynamite in that post: my white/black trash question :)
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