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Living on Internet Time... Like Thomas Edison Did

Posted by chrisd on from the love-the-automatic-hammer dept.

securitas writes: "If you think that dotcommers are the first people to live on Internet time, then take a trip to the 19th century (NYT Story, here's a Yahoo link). Thomas Edison had 10,000 researchers and scientists working at his Menlo Park labs, who slept on their desks, and had the same problems pleasing the investment community as today's tech companies. The result? Over 1000 patents and many inventions that we take for granted today."

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  1. Did I miss something? by NanoGator · · Score: 1, Troll

    Did I skip over a paragraph or something in the article that said Edison was the only guy to ever invent stuff?

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  2. Here's an example... by NanoGator · · Score: 3, Troll

    Here's an excerpt of a supposedly true story about Tesla, now you know why I'm looking for objective data:

    "After his death in 1943, his TeslaScope interplanetary communication device was turned on at the home of a friend in Canada, and the assembled group heard the Commander of an Alien vessel, explain the true hidden facts behind Tesla's fantastic 87 year life. Tesla apparently didn't discover until fairly late in his life, that he himself was an Alien, who had been left on Earth as a baby to help the people of the Earth evolve through the use of his inventive genius. From early childhood it was clear that he was quite different and odd compared to more "normal" Earth humans. The Commander mentioned that they had attended Tesla's funeral, and they had simply blurred all the photographs so that there would be no record of their attendance."

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  3. TROLL?! Read what I said!! by NanoGator · · Score: 1, Troll

    Oh come ON! Is the point of what I said that obscure? In the parent post I was trying to find info about Tesla, and above is an excerpt from a web page that I found!! It's because of information like that that I wanted to find objective information.

    I did NOT post that to wind anybody up or to ruin Tesla's name, I posted it to show people the type of info I was *not* hunting for.

    Troll. *hrumph* "MS rules and Linux sux". -- there, now you can mod me down as a troll.

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  4. Thomas Edison was a liar by chrysalis · · Score: 1, Troll

    Discoveries patented by that fucking Thomas Edison were in fact made by John Tesla (who was a _real_ hacker at that time) .


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