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caritas: (noun) (pronounced: ca-ree-tus) The simple definition is “charity.” The more complex definition is “Christian love of humanity,” as in... Christian history is not replete with caritas.
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The Daily Lesson
A brief history on the Internet, which has nothing to do with Al Gore. Way back in the 1960s, when computers were still the size of washing machines, smart computer guys figured out computers could be linked together, and they made ARPANET – pronounce it as you will. It allowed the Defense Department to send information from one computer to another. Their reasoning was that if information could be spread around, then everything couldn’t be blown up at once. Instead of having a continuous connection, like a telephone line, they sent “packets” of information between computers. It was pretty much like beaming down to the planet. They take you apart up here and put you back together down there. And that lasted until 1989.
In 1989 a guy named Tim Berners-Lee came up with the internet, or, in simple terms, a graphical, user-friendly interface. Now, instead of typing in commands, you could click on icons. Yeah... windows. Only there weren’t a whole lot of windows at first.
Berners-Lee then came up with the first webserver in 1990. Ever hear of CERN? Yup, that was it. That massive facility on the French-Swiss border where they have this ridiculously big particle accelerator to study physics. It required a lot of computing, even back in 1990.
And if you have a webserver, then you can have a web. It was on August 6, 1991, that Berners-Lee made the internet public, publishing the first web page explaining how it all worked. So for the first time you could surf the web. Well, maybe not. That does require more than one place to go back and forth from.
It was in April of 1993 that CERN made it all public, releasing all the codes and software that goes into the internet into the public domain. The first porn site was, predictably, porn.com, which launched in 1994. And in 1995 came Meowchat. And now you know everything there is to know about the internet.
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The History of the Future: The End of Inventions
It was in June of 2336 that Professor Noland Marvin published his thoroughly comprehensive History of Everything Ever Invented. The book immediately became a standard reference for the International Patent and Copyright Office. Whenever somebody thought she had a novel idea, the IPCO would simply cross-reference it with Dr. Marvin’s History and confirm that it wasn’t novel in the least. In fact, it was quickly discovered that nothing new was left to invent. On March 18, 2337, the IPCO received its last query ever. That invention, too, had been thought of before.
Perhaps coincidentally, it was also in March of 2337 that MindFlix, the largest supplier of media on the planet, stopped suggesting what viewers might like to watch. They just told them what they were going to watch. And nobody seemed to mind, because, after all, it was really what they wanted to watch anyway.
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