Special Editorial: The Internet Turns 30
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
SPECIAL EDITORIAL by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. The Internet Turns 30 This September marked the thirtieth birthday of the Internet, though historians may quibble. It was in September...
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...Still, Professor Kleinrock's work was seminal, and Bob Metcalfe (the inventor of Ethernet, another key advance towards Internet) has been congratulating Kleinrock on his parenthood and celebrating the Internet's thirtieth birthday...
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...Ebullient with a joie de science, thirty or so of the brightest technical minds in the country created such things as the personal computer (a contraption called Alto), word processing, computer graphics, and the linkage of computers to other computers and peripheral equipment...
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...The spread of the microchip, personal computing, and the Internet do in fact constitute the rise of a historic epoch whose origins trace back to the early 1970's when a small coterie of brilliant scientists was lured by the Xerox Corporation to a complex near Stanford University that would come to be known as Xerox PARC...
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...But prior to Xerox PARC the computer was bereft of colorful screens, joyous speakers, floppy discs, and all the strangely piquant terminology the engineers dreamed up...
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...The joie de science shared by PARC's tech wizards is now overshadowed, Kaplan writes, by the venture capitalists, big bucks deals, and opulent lifestyles...
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