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How I Invented the Internet
Paradigm is a word often used in network marketing
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How I invented the Internet.
This is a true story. No kidding.
It was the summer of 1975. I was taking summer school classes between my
junior and senior year at college. A friend of mine had recommended that I
take the computer programming class in the summer because the computer
labs were too crowded during the school year.
You have to understand that the computer lab consisted of a Sperry-Rand
main frame that was about as big as a car. We had to use computer punch
cards. Do you remember those long cards made of that special cardboard /
paper that had little rectangular holes punched across it? They came with
the instructions, "Do not fold, spindle, bend, or mutilate."
I was pretty familiar with punching the cards because I used to help my
father on his job. Now Dad had started with computers way before they
were even called computers. He had worked for the railroad on what they
called then, "automatic bookkeeping machines". Boy, Dad said that when
he was a young man he thought he was set for life because he had a job with
the railroad. When the Southern Railroad moved to Atlanta, Dad decided to
stay here near Cincinnati.
Anyway, he had a series of jobs working with these computers. His job, as
far as I can figure out, was to configure these large - I don't know what you
call em - but they were these large metal flat boxes that had a bunch of -
well it looked like a metal "peg board". And he had to take these wires with
plugs on each end - something like what you see an old telephone operator
use. Anyway, he had to insert the plugs into the proper pegs and configure it
so that the machine would work. I'm not sure what it was that he did, but he
would let me run the punch cards through the sorting machines.
So anyway, when I was in summer school that year, I thought I was hot
stuff, because I was so familiar with the punch card sorters.
It was an Introduction to Fortran Programming class. The big project at the
end of the semester was to figure the value of the interest which would have
accrued if the Indians had taken the $24.00 they received from the sale of
Manhattan Island and deposited the money in a bank.
Of course the answer is some astronomical number that would exceed the
sum total of all of the real estate value on Manhattan Island today.
I not only got the right answer, but I was able to insert of footnote at the
end that the bank only gives interests on deposits of $25.00 or more.
I even boxed the footnote with asterisks.**
So anyway, the professor comes into the lecture hall one fine summer
morning and announces that he had just received a research grant. I really
don't recall the professors name anymore. I could find it out, but I have
college neatly packed away in two cardboard boxes in that attic. I do
remember that he was from Virginia. I remember this because after he had
mentioned this in class I always made it a point to wear my T-shirt that said,
"Virginia is for Lovers."
Anyway, he told the class that he had just received a research grant to figure
a way to identify each computer in the world so that they could all be
hooked together. I found this fascinating because at the time I was reading,
gosh was it short story or small science fiction novel?. Gee, you'd think that
with a name like Tom Corbett Space Cadet, I'd remember my science fiction
better. Anyway, it's a very famous science fiction piece by a very famous
science writer about what would happen if all of the computers in the world
were connected together. I think the point of the story was that the
computers started thinking for themselves. I'm sorry, I digress.
So the professor briefly explained about combinations and permutations.
He said that you could assign each computer a unique number., but that
would become cumbersome. He explained that if we were to use letters that
the combinations of letters would be 26 times 26 times 26 and so on. But
that if you used a combinations of letters like that it would be confusing to
use random combinations of letters. And then how do you treat capital and
lower case letters?
Anyway, he just threw this out to the class for any ideas. He said that he
knew we were in an intro programming class that but that sometimes a fresh
idea or different perspective is what is needed.
So, I raised my hand and asked the simple question, " Why don't you just
use the Dewey Decimal System?"
It kind of stumped him for a few seconds while he quickly thought about
the idea. He kind of stopped and schquenched up his eyes looking at the ceiling.
I said, that's how libraries can classify an infinite number of books by using
a combination of letters separating a series of numbers with a decimal point.
It becomes infinitely expandable.
He said, "yeah I know what the Dewey Decimal System is. Yeah, I can see
where, well.. I'll have to think about it."
Essentially that is the system that was adopted . Modified for sure. But
each internet connection has a unique number which is a big long number
separated with a few decimal points.
So anyway, I have just as much claim to inventing the Internet as does Al.
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I just ask that you publish in its entirety and include this notice with it.:
You can read Tom Corbett's Profile and Blog on NPN at:
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Paradigm is a word often used in network marketing
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Paradigm is a word often used in network marketing. For example,
you may have read that your particular MLM represents a "new
paradigm" for whatever. Strictly speaking, it is a systematic inflection
of a verb or noun showing a complete conjugation or declension. It is
an example or pattern.
Recently, it has taken on a new connotation meaning a way of
thinking. Usually it is used as a five-dollar college word meaning an
unconscious belief that organizes the perception of reality. A
paradigm is such a deeply held belief that it is unexamined by the
person holding to a particular paradigm or world view.
So what does this have to do with network marketing? Let me give
you a seemingly unrelated example of a paradigm at work that will be
sure to offend many and then relate that to why referral or network
marketing can be so difficult.
For the first few thousand years of mankind's existence, Creation was
commonly accepted as how things came to be. Then in the 19th
Century Charles Darwin proposed his Theory on the Origin of Species,
commonly known as Evolution. His supposed scientific theories
questioned the commonly held belief of Creation. Thomas Aquinas's
explanation of the uncaused cause became replaced with Darwin's
never-ending series of causes.
This was such a radical paradigm shift in thinking that at first most
people could not even accept it. I'm sure you are familiar with the
famous Scopes Monkey Trial in which a biology teacher was
prosecuted for teaching the Theory of Evolution.
So now the Theory of Evolution has become a new paradigm that
when the theory is challenged by Creationists, people refuse to
examine the arguments that plainly refute the Theory of Evolution.
Really the best that can truthfully be said about the Theory of
Evolution is that it is just bad science. It defies probability theory,
number theory, radiation theory, evidence of a young earth, etc., etc.
Even Darwin admitted in The Origin of Species that the best evidence
against his theory is the fossil record because there is no evidence of
transitional forms. All so-called transitional forms have been proved
to be fully animal, fully human, or frauds. In the annals of scientific
history, the Theory of Evolution will rate right up there with the
Theory of Spontaneous Generation.
Do I need to go on with this? Volumes have been written, but I
suppose I have managed to offend or rather challenged your
commonly held and unexamined belief that I have hopefully made my
point.
If you ever engage in a debate of Evolution vs. Creation, you can
actually feel the defense mechanism of the opposing side - no matter
which side you debate.
I give you another example that may relate more directly to network
marketing. Most networkers, by nature I guess, are somewhat
evangelistic. We have the "answer" and want to go out and share it
with everyone we know.
Well have you ever actually stood on a street corner and passed out
religious literature? Try it if you haven't and you'll see what I'm
talking about. I don't care what you pass out. Find that one little
religious tract that you firmly believe in and stand on a street corner
and pass them out. Observe the reactions of most people.
Most will not even accept what you are offering. They will ignore
you. Many will take what you offer them and without even looking at
it will throw it on the ground or if they are polite in the nearest trash
can. This is known as the sin of Willful Ignorance. Others will glance
at it. And then there are the others who will verbally abuse you. Often
times they will ask the constable on patrol to politely remove you from
the sidewalk. And then there are the very few who will read what you
have given them and then come to you with a very polite and greatly
appreciated, "Thank you."
Is network marketing all that different from evangelizing? That is why
it is so difficult, sometimes, to just share your opportunity and/or
products. By doing so, you are challenging peoples thinking and
behavior. And, it is why you may encounter such negative reaction
from fiends and family.
Let's face it. If this were easy we all could quickly "get three people
who will in turn get three people…" and we can all retire from our real
jobs and enjoy …
Perhaps these few examples will help you to understand why people
react they way they do when you try to share with them your
networking opportunity or products. By doing so you are challenging
their paradigm or deeply held albeit unconscious beliefs.
Nevertheless, go out and evangelize. You'll find those few people
who will come back to you and say, "Thank you."
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