Harriet Powers
from Daily Podcast Practice Hosted by Rich Grimshaw
Just three days to NaPodPoMo (national podcast post month) Today is National Internet Day. Why? Well on this day in 1969 - 52 years ago - Charley Kline, a young grad student on the UCLA campus sent the first internet message to his colleague, Bill Duvall, at Stanford. Another man, a computer scientist named Joseph Licklider, also deserves credit for being an internet pioneer with an early vision of a worldwide computer network long before it was built. Born on this day in 1837 in Clarke County, Georgia, African-American slave and quilt maker Harriet Powers. Today's word is appliqué.
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