<nettime> Derivation of "Bug," telegraphy code, etc.

["martin hardie" <martin.hardie {AT} gmail.com>]

i do not doubt this Alan, apropos of which I once came across an nice old
AT&T add I have somewhere advertising transcontinental telephone in the US
with a reference to the time of the "ping" from coast to coast and return
.... x miles in x seconds .....
the genealogy of computing and indeed *nix oweth mucho to the old systems of
telegraphy and telefony .....

On 22/12/2007, Alan Sondheim < sondheim {AT} panix.com> wrote:

> Derivation of "Bug," telegraphy code, etc.
 <...>

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