What do you know today, that you did not yesterday?

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Diogenes Apr 2021 9:51pm, 6 Apr 2021 58,961 posts	0 Diogenes [Remember it well. I knew a guy back the who’s name was Grant Fidler. Somehow he managed to get a grant!]
Jason1969 Apr 2021 9:22am, 7 Apr 2021 12,838 posts	0 Jason1969 Today is World Internet day because it was launched on this day in 1969
57.5 Degrees of Pain Apr 2021 10:21am, 7 Apr 2021 6,992 posts	0 57.5 Degrees of Pain [I think you might need to fact check that one Jason!]
FESE443 (AllShare) :-) Apr 2021 10:32am, 7 Apr 2021 5,541 posts	0 FESE443 (AllShare) :-) The internet is older than I am.
GordonG Apr 2021 11:32am, 7 Apr 2021 8,540 posts	0 GordonG that Maynards Liqourice Allsorts are a very poor alternative to Bassett's Liqourice Allsorts
HappyG(rrr) Apr 2021 11:47am, 7 Apr 2021 38,299 posts	0 HappyG(rrr) [Fact checking for Jason 7 April - publishing of the first publication about electronic messaging 1969 – The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1. 29 Oct - the sending of the first message in 1969 17 May - Telecommunications or Internet Society Day - again 1969 is when that body was founded. THere you go. Didn't know any/all of that! G ]
swittle Apr 2021 1:34pm, 7 Apr 2021 74,434 posts	0 swittle [Interesting - good work, HappyG ]
57.5 Degrees of Pain Apr 2021 1:49pm, 7 Apr 2021 6,995 posts	0 57.5 Degrees of Pain Calling electronic messaging the birth of the internet seems like dating phones to the first morse code signal. I didn't look into the rationale why Internet Day seems to be Oct 29th in many places.
HappyG(rrr) Apr 2021 1:55pm, 7 Apr 2021 38,303 posts	0 HappyG(rrr) [This is quite a good PBS piece on why it really was the precursor to the internet.... pbs.org ]
Jason1969 Apr 2021 8:32am, 8 Apr 2021 12,839 posts	0 Jason1969 Yesterday I learned you can't trust everything you hear on the radio.