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Element 40

40●›
Sh
Share

Copy it to someone else.

share sheet · attach · send a link

First known

Opened

1965CTSS MAIL: a file is placed in another user's mailbox, whether they are logged in or not. Noel Morris and Tom Van Vleck, MIT.

See also: FTP, RFC 114 (A. Bhushan, MIT, 16 April 1971): 'facilitate the exchange of programs and data between computers'.

“To place a file containing a message to another user in his file directory, whether he is logged in or not.”

The same command is the first known Message: email began as handing someone a file.

Someone opened the dated document itself. The source.

  • ReadingValue

Specimen № 40 — operate freely

Send the CV both ways. Then fix the typo.

Fig. 40 — Share

000 readings · idle

Down the Copy column

  1. it remembersCoCopy
  2. it connectsShShare
  3. it guessesExExtract
  4. it actsFkFork

Read down and Copy gets heavier: each step is the same act, on a machine that keeps track of more.

Bodies

The act stays put while the hardware changes. These are some of the forms Share takes.

  • share sheet
  • attach
  • send a link

From the 2021 table

This was a tile of its own. On this table it is a form of Share, and its old address lands here.

  • AttachIsotopeThe same act in another body.