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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 11:59 AM
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If we had the Internet in Lincoln's time, he mighta stayed home & Web surfed instead of the theater
I'll bet his favorite site woulda been "Babes In Stovepipe Hats."

I'll bet.
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 01:55 PM
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1. They did sort of have an Internet then
It was called the "telegraph"

Check out "The Victorian Internet" and "Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails"

http://www.amazon.com/Victorian-Internet-Remarkable-Nineteenth-line/dp/0425171698

http://www.mrlincolnstmails.com/
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 01:57 PM
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2. Is it cheating if you have telegraph sex?
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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 01:59 PM
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3. Dot dot dot, dash dash dash ain't my idea of porn
Edited on Wed Jun-02-10 01:59 PM by Amerigo Vespucci
And an Internet without porn can hardly be an Internet...can it?

:rofl:

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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 02:35 PM
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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 03:17 PM
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6. And strangely enough, THAT headed me straight to the cold shower!
:rofl:

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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 03:10 PM
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5. think ASCII art
I imagine something similar might have been done then

At least the equivalent of "sexting" - a telegram is just a text message when you get down to it
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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-02-10 03:18 PM
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7. Abe Lincoln had a cell phone? Learn something new every day!
:rofl:

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