Barks and internet

[Lars Jensen]

Daniël van Eijmeren wrote:

>> ["The Many Faces of Magica De Spell", US 48] The Bird Telegraph,
>> to me anyway, simply comes off as the bird equivalent of the
>> "Twilight Bark" from Disney's "101 Dalmatians" (1961).
>
> Interesting, I didn't think of that. Could there be a connection
> between Barks's story and the movie?

You mean, did Barks rip off "101 Dalmatians"? I have no idea whether he
even saw that movie, so I can't help you there.

> Or has the idea been used before?

Well, American natives used smoke signals. I believe the ancient Greeks
(Romans?) used large fires to signal whether a war had been won. And I
suspect humans since the dawn of time has used the concept of verbally
"asking around".
I have no idea who first thought of giving animals their own formalized
(fictional) "asking around" system, though.

Lars