Word: senders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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RETURNED TO SENDER...
...Baran's system was the antithesis of the orderly, efficient phone network; it was more like an electronic post office designed by a madman. In Baran's scheme, each message was cut into tiny strips and stuffed into electronic envelopes, called packets, each marked with the address of the sender and the intended receiver. The packets were then released like so much confetti into the web of interconnected computers, where they were tossed back and forth over high-speed wires in the general direction of their destination and reassembled when they finally got there. If any packets were missing...
...sent, it can actually do things. Incoming Telescript messages might be programmed to display information about who mailed them, what they are about and how long they are, helping busy executives decide which ones to read and which to toss. An outgoing message might be programmed to alert the sender if after two days it still has not been read...
...Elvis Presley fans are putting his stamp on willfully misaddressed letters, which, of course, come back stamped RETURN TO SENDER. Reason: address unknown. No such number, no such zone...
...letter expresses "dismay" on the part ofthe sender at the King verdict, which it calls"the last in a series of failures of the Americanjudicial system...