[GLLUG] OT: Sputnik's 50th birthday

[Karl Schuttler]

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Sputnik? What's that? You old people and your tube radios...

On 10/4/07, Charles Ulrich <charles at bityard.net> wrote:
> On 10/4/07, Michael Rudas <audiotech50 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The Sputnik launch and our delayed response to it led directly to ARPA
> > and the modern NASA-- hence the modern space program and the Internet.
>
> So in a way, we can thank communism for not one, but two of the USA's
> most important technological feats. Thank you, communism! :)
>
> Charles
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