Happy Death Day to Cicero, the World’s First Internet Troll
Today is a sober one : December 7th , 43 BC , Ancient Grecian sculptor Marcus Tullius Cicero passes of a sudden , tragically from this planet . The demise of Cicero , inarguably the most baleful anniversary of this dark particular date , arcs to our era : net trolling endure . Though he did n’t , in a rigid technical sense , employ the internet , Cicero work on a “ cyber vane ” of sorts , attracting the ears of senators with his prosperous natural language , creating a “ web ” of influence perhaps greater than anything with an ethernet sea dog ....