[Tfug] Thank goodness for Bill Gates! (was: Bicycle/Car Accidents)

[George Cohn]

Chris Niswander wrote:
>>Charles R. Kiss wrote:
>>
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>>>Unfortunately, if it weren't for cars there wouldn't be roads to ride on.
> 
> 
> "Thank goodness for Bill Gates, without him there wouldn't be an Internet!"
> :-)
> 
> Now the next time someone says that about the Internet, 
> maybe we will better understand how people can say stuff like that. :-)

Or the guy at IBM who once said there would never be a need for more 
than a half dozen computers in the world!

Seems to me that Unix was around for at least 10 years before Microsoft 
and I believe they were trying to network computers together before DOS 
1.0.  ;-)

Somewhere in my stash of technology relics, I have a modem of the type 
where you placed the call with a rotary dial telephone then laid the 
handset in the rubber cups so the computers could *talk* to each other.

George Cohn