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Sexta-feira, 29 de Junho de 2007

PORTUGAL INVENTOU A INTERNET?

Sim, Portugal inventou uma versão da Internet há 500 anos, segundo o
"New York Times" de 29 de Junho: aqui (inscrição necessária).
O artigo descreve a exposição sobre os Descobrimentos portugueses que
se encontra patente em Washington. Eis o começo para abrir o apetite:
Portugal, Conquering and Also Conquered
By HOLLAND COTTER

WASHINGTON, June 22 - A little-known fact: A version of the Internet
was invented in Portugal 500 years ago by a bunch of sailors with
names like Pedro, Vasco and Bartolomeu. The technology was crude.
Links were unstable. Response time was glacial. (A message sent on
their network might take a year to land.) They put up with it all.
They were hungry to gain access to the world.
That's the basic story of "Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the
World in the 16th and 17 Centuries" at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery,
a show that glows like a treasury, radiates like a compass and seems
as rich with potential information as the World Wide Web.

 Posted by Carlos Fiolhais   at  21:01   0 comments          Links to this post
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