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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 07:46:52 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: "Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSCG" <billstewart () att com> Date: April 15, 2006 8:43:32 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: RE: [IP] In Silicon Valley, a Man Without a Patent
Mr. Goodfellow had his light-bulb moment in 1982, when he came up with the idea of sending electronic mail messages wirelessly to a portable device - like a BlackBerry. Only back then, there was no BlackBerry; his vision centered on
pagers. Back in the early 90s, I was taking the Metroliner from DC back to New Jersey, and I was sitting across the table from an older guy who had the smallest laptop I'd ever seen (5 or 6 pounds, made by IBM for Japan, not sold in the US), a very small cellphone (remember how big the Motorola flip-phones were?) and an alphanumeric Skytel pager which was receiving relevance-filtered emails. I was reading some cryptography papers I'd gotten from John Gilmore, and we got to talking about privacy and civil liberties and cool toys, and my new acquaintance was in fact Dave Farber, whose list I'd been reading for a while :-) I can't place the trip precisely forPrior Art reasons, but he'd helped found the EFF [ I was not a founder, just an old Board member djf] so it was at least
1990, and I don't think the term "cypherpunks" came up, so it was probably 1991 or 1992. ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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