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Article: DIGITAL DEMOCRACY THE INTERNET, WHICH GIVES THE PUBLIC THE KEYS TO KNOWLEDGE, IS BUILT ON THE PHILOSOPHY.(BUSINESS)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- November 28, 1999
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Byline: MICHAEL CLARK\ STAFF WRITER
Thomas Jefferson, the man of Monticello, might have left behind one last surprise for history buffs. Besides penning the first draft of the Declaration of Independence, serving two terms as president of the United States and founding the University of Virginia, it turns out that he also laid the groundwork for the Internet.
Impossible? A man who wrote with feather quills dipped in ink wells is responsible for one of the greatest technological revolutions of all time?
Long before computers and even before electricity, Jefferson had the ideas, the spirit, that makes the Internet the phenomenon it is. He just ...