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April 7th, 2011

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On April 7, 1927, the first distance public television broadcast occurred.

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The Bell Telephone Company transmitted a speech by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover 200 miles over telephone lines on April 7, 1927. This became the first successful long distance demonstration of television.

Experimental station 3XN in Whippany, New Jersey was used to transmit 1,575 kHz video and 1,450 kHz radio. The system used a flying-spot scanner, and was seen on Nipkow disc receivers with two-inch, 50-line images, and on a two-foot neon tube display. It was developed by Herbert E. Ives and Frank Gray.

Edna Mae Horner, an operator at the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, assisted the transmission and became the first woman on television; she helped guests in Washington, D.C., exchange greetings with the audience in New York. Throughout the presentation, viewers in New York could see and hear Edna

Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover commented, “Today we have, in a sense, the transmission of sight for the first time in the world’s history. Human genius has now destroyed the impediment of distance in a new respect, and in a manner hitherto unknown.”

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PatrickIrish
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immediately after Secretary Hoover's speech was an hour long infomercial which explains why it took another 30 years before people were enthused enough to try making Television work.

April 7th, 2011
PatrickIrish
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ALSO: Happy Birthday, the Internet!
On April 7, 1969, RFC 1 was distributed on the spankin’-new ARPANET by Steve Crocker of UCLA. Today, the RFC is the official publication channel for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), and the global community of computer network researchers. ARPANET would later be incorporated with other networks to giveth life to our modern Internet.

April 7th, 2011
ODDBALL
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Microbes? Where? Where?!

April 7th, 2011
Uncle_Pete
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@PatrickIrish
LOL Actually, it was a double whammy of The Great Depression and World War II that put TV on the back burner.

Gee... and *I* thought it was Al Gore who invented the Internet. Are you sure about that, Patrick? LOL (o:

@ODDBALL
An anti-bacterial wipe won't help, Ben... Get the hoses out! (o:

April 8th, 2011
PatrickIrish
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I realize you are probably aware that what he said was taken out of context but I thought I would share this with you as a point of reference anyway. :OD

What Gore Really Said

Here's what Gore actually said, during an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer:

"During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system."
In context, it's obvious that Gore was only claiming to have moved the Internet forward at the governmental level, by offering support and resources to help it grow. Unless he was also claiming to have invented the environment and the economy!
In fact, what Gore really meant is so obvious that those who have attacked Gore over the years have felt the need to misquote him. "Al Gore says he invented the Internet" sure does sound ridiculous... except that he never said it.

What Gore Really Did

Is it true that Gore "took the initiative in creating the Internet?" Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf, who invented the TCP/IP protocol that is at the core of all Internet communication, certainly think so:

"As the two people who designed the basic architecture and the core protocols that make the Internet work, we would like to acknowledge VP Gore's contributions as a Congressman, Senator and as Vice President. No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of time."
Among other things, Kahn and Cerf were referring to the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991, originated by then-Senator Gore, which provided funding and resources for the growth of the Internet.
To summarize: no, Al Gore did not invent the Internet. I reserve that term for the people who figure out how a thing should work, at a practical, nuts-and-bolts technological level. But Gore never claimed to have invented the Internet. He did claim to have played a role in creating the Internet as we know it - which is quite true.

http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/history/gore.html

April 8th, 2011
Uncle_Pete
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@PatrickIrish
You're no fun! (o:

April 8th, 2011
PatrickIrish
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I am nothing if not a killjoy! We Liberals are always famous for the infamous circular firing lines where we shoot each other all the time and that was never more prevalent when the Green Party ran a Consumer Advocate for President that diluted VP Gores (who literally wrote the book on saving the environment at that point and of course went on to when the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to save the environment) clearing the path to have an OILMAN elected President. How the world would be different now had the Green Party supported the candidate that actually stood for their values.

April 8th, 2011
Uncle_Pete
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@PatrickIrish
Of course, that's how Clinton got in as well. What ever happened to H Ross Perot (beside not nearly enough)?

April 9th, 2011