Portugal inventou a internet!!

Segundo o "New York Times" de 29 de Junho, Portugal inventou uma versão da Internet há 500 anos.

O artigo descreve a exposição sobre os Descobrimentos portugueses que se encontra patente em Washington.

Portugal, Conquering and Also Conquered
By HOLLAND COTTER

WASHINGTON, June 22 — A little-known fact: A version of the Internet was invented in Portugal 500 years ago by a bunch of sailors with names like Pedro, Vasco and Bartolomeu. The technology was crude. Links were unstable. Response time was glacial. (A message sent on their network might take a year to land.) They put up with it all. They were hungry to gain access to the world.

That’s the basic story of “Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17 Centuries” at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, a show that glows like a treasury, radiates like a compass and seems as rich with potential information as the World Wide Web.

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