[SIGCIS-Members] Was email really already 75% of ARPANET traffic by 1973?
Win Treese
treese at acm.org
Wed Jul 29 14:18:37 PDT 2020
> On Jul 29, 2020, at 4:22 PM, <thomas.haigh at gmail.com> <thomas.haigh at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The figure is also in Wikipedia, without a real source, so I'm acutely aware that it's one of those factoids that historians and journalists will find somewhere like Wikipedia or the Hobbes Timeline and then copy, thus creating a "reliable source" that Wikipedia can then cite to support the information. It's like a time paradox.
Of course, there’s an XKCD for that: https://xkcd.com/978/.
- Win
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