Did you know that the internet is Jewish?

 

Yeah...

Moses got the Torah from HaShem on Mt. Sinai and HaShem told Moses that his brother Aaron and his descendants would be kohanim forever.

and a Jewish sugar merchant living high in the mountains...well sort of...

In 1972, at the International Computer Communication Conference, Robert Kahn (a kohen) was able to connect 40 different computers revealing his work to the public for the first time.

Robert Elliot Kahn (born December 23, 1938) is an American electrical engineer who, along with Vint Cerf, first proposed the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), the fundamental communication protocols at the heart of the Internet.  In 2004, Kahn won the Turing Award with Vint Cerf for their work on TCP/IP

Just three years later David Farber (whose Yiddish family name means “painter”) worked to create a primitive kind of email system.

David J. Farber (born April 17, 1934) is a professor of computer science, noted for his major contributions to programming languages and computer networking who is currently [as of?] the distinguished professor and co-director of Cyber Civilization Research Center at Keio University in Japan. He has been called the "grandfather of the Internet"

Within the next twenty years the internet that we now know, and love was born.

In 2003 Myspace was launched and by 2006 it had become the largest social networking site in the United States.

 

 

SoSHHial Media: The Jewish Hand Behind the Internet – Library of Rickandria

The website was co-founded by Tom Anderson.

Thomas Anderson (born November 8, 1970) is an American technology entrepreneur and co-founder of the social networking website Myspace, which he founded in 2003 with Chris DeWolfe. He was later president of Myspace and a strategic adviser for the company. Anderson is popularly known as "Tom from Myspace", "Myspace Tom" or "My friend, Tom" because he would automatically be assigned as the first "friend" of new Myspace users upon the creation of their profiles.

Although Tom’s last name reflects his father’s Scottish heritage, he and his mother are Jewish, and he was raised in a messianic Jewish household.

At the age of 14 Tom was a computer hacker working his mischief under the tag name Lord Flathead (not a Jewish name).

MySpace Cofounder Tom Anderson Was A Real Life "WarGames" Hacker in 1980s | TechCrunch

 

He led a team of hackers that were able to break into Chase Manhattan Bank computers, he tampered with banking records and left a message saying that unless he was given free use of the system, he would wipeout the records.

 

He must have been praying because he was never charged with the crime.

 

The website Tom would later become famous for, inspired a 23-year-old Mark Zuckerberg (a Jewish name meaning “sugar mountain”) to create another social networking site called Facebook. 

Things are looking sweeter than a pile of sugar for Zuckerberg because Facebook has made him over a billion dollars and more people can be found on his networking site then in the entire country of Japan.

So, we see that many key players in the field of computer technologies are our fellow tribesmen.

 

The internet itself has even been compared to the Talmud…layers upon layers of commentary dealing with issues from personal hygiene to oven construction.

However, the internet is only truly comparable to the Talmud if it’s dialogue eventually returns to G-dly matters.

'OMG' Is Old! First Known Use Was In 1917 Letter to Winston Churchill | HuffPost Impact

The Talmud finds a way to elevate even mundane and seemingly secular matters to a level of Torah.

 

We should do the same with our technologies, only then do they become truly Jewish.

History of the Internet - How it all began? - kinex

Jews on the Internet: ZOMG!! Y1d5 Ru|3!!!! – Library of Rickandria

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OMG, A Jewish History of the Internet (basecamp.com)

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OMG, A Jewish History of the Internet – Library of Rickandria