Re:The Black Technologist Who Invented the First Internet Se...
by dragonwriter on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @01:05PM
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> I don't understand why one would point out a person's race (unless it's relevant to the situaiton)
If you read the first paragraph of the article, you'd know that his race is the reason the article was published:
At a time when “googling” has become the generic term for conducting an internet search, it can be hard to remember that search had a long history before Google came along. But it’s worth revisiting that past during Black History Month, because the pre-Google era saw one of the most momentous black contributions to the development of the internet: the invention of internet search itself, by Alan Emtage.
If you read the first paragraph of the article, you'd know that his race is the reason the article was published:
At a time when “googling” has become the generic term for conducting an internet search, it can be hard to remember that search had a long history before Google came along. But it’s worth revisiting that past during Black History Month, because the pre-Google era saw one of the most momentous black contributions to the development of the internet: the invention of internet search itself, by Alan Emtage.