[LINK] David Brin's Earth

[Antony Barry]

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Richard Chirgwin
<rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au>wrote:

> While I can't confirm it, Earth is also the oldest citation I know of for
> the
> "fire hose" analogy for the Internet.
>
> The fire time I saw that was on a librarian's email list back in BITNET
LISTSERV days promoting gopher (gopher4lib which was succeeded by web4lib).
It would have been in 1992.

Tony



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