> During my life the VCR, microwave, computers and email, > fax machine, answering machine, pager, mobile phone, and online shopping > (from outdoor gear to groceries) have all been invented. The Fax was invented before the telephone, over 150 years ago. Computers, 200 years (Babbage)? Micorwaves, Queen Victoria could have talked across London if she'd wanted to, the technology was there (Maxwell et al). Photography is well over 150 years old, TV was regularly broadcast before the Second World War. But then again, some of our paddlers are old......... Alex -- ---------------------------------------------------- Alex Ferguson a.ferguson_at_chem.canterbury.ac.nz Electronics Workshop, Chem Dept, Univ of Canterbury Christchurch, New Zealand *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Sun Mar 07 1999 - 17:15:50 PST
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