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Old 07-20-2010, 11:53 AM   #72
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Originally Posted by nyrath View Post
As a matter of interest, most experts say that the first description of something resembling the Internet in Science Fiction was in a 1946 story "A Logic Name Joe" by Murray Leinster.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Logic_Named_Joe
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