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Aligning the Eyes of the Universe Machine

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So, for me, the place to be was at a computer console [at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore]. Anytime anything significant happened, I always wanted to make sure that I was there, so I got an apartment [near the institute in Baltimore]. And then there were a lot of things that had to work. Acton: Yes, right.

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

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The lingering questions around actual commercial applications gave promoters reason to continue organizing public demonstrations, such as the Enterprise Networking Event (ENE) in Baltimore, in June 1988. SUNY Polytechnic Institute The hope for ENE was to provide demos as well as showcase products that were actually available for purchase.

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