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

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And by mid-1971, program director Lawrence Roberts of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was becoming impatient with the slow pace at which ARPA-funded researchers were getting connected. In 1981, GM held exploratory conversations with Digital Equipment Corp. Users in large organizations—including the U.S. in 1982.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Some of these real-world offspring, like the Apple Lisa computer and the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printer, took many of their root concepts from PARC; others, like the Ada computer language and the Intel 1103 dynamic RAM chip, are less closely related. What an ideal concept that would be for Xerox. Local area network. Palo Alto, Calif.,

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