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Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector

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Meanwhile, over at BBN, Kahn intended to spend a couple of years in industry so he could return to academia with some real-world experience and ideas for future research. “I You were just trying to figure out how to enable conversations.” A plaque commemorating the ARPANET now stands in front of the Arlington, Va.,

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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Although many of these gatherings have escaped the attention of historians, our view is that these events should be recognized more fully as moments where experts could glimpse possible futures and judge for themselves what was most likely to happen. In 1981, GM held exploratory conversations with Digital Equipment Corp.

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