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lil · 3693 days ago · link · · parent · post: TIH: March 10, 1876 - Speech transmitted by telephone by Alexander Graham Bell
I hope not. It's kind of tragic from Gray's point of view. Scientific development goes on concurrently all over the world. Look at Tesla and Marconi. Somebody gets in first and is famous and sets the stage for the next 100 years. For reasons we do not know, the other guy shows up one day later and loses out.
If 8bitsamurai had been taken one minute earlier, you'd be ninebit or sevenbit today. How would you feel if 8bit called you and told you to eat dirt?