The Spark Weekly | Trailblazers in Pennsylvania: Horseshoe Curve and The Rise of The Internet.

When Matthew Wolfe walks through the Railroaders Memorial Museum in Altoona, he isn’t just surrounded by locomotives and artifacts, he’s surrounded by the lives of the people who built them. and In September 1982, that problem surfaced on a small network of computers at Carnegie Mellon University, where a few dozen computer scientists were using early electronic message boards—primitive by today’s standards, but revolutionary at the time. Messages were text-only, stripped of facial expressions, tone of voice, or context. Humor, sarcasm, and jokes often landed the wrong way.Support WITF: https://www.witf.org/support/give-now/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.