TIL: 01
Today I learnt1 that Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein(one of the greatest horror books written) inadvertently created the Internet.
- Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein.
- Arthur C Clarke(author of 2001's Space Odyssey) writes Dial F for Frankenstein, a book about the world's telephone network banding together and creating a superintelligence.
- This is published in Playboy Magazine.
- Tim Bernards Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, reads the issue of Playboy (as a 9 year old) that Dial F for Frankenstein was published in.2
- Tim Berners Lee later goes on to create the World Wide Web in 1989.
Thanks to Simply Incredibly Fascinating for this fact.↩