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

Cars That Think

The ICCC would prove to be for packet switching what the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia was for the telephone : the public unveiling of what would eventually lead to a technological discontinuity. In 1981, GM held exploratory conversations with Digital Equipment Corp. Hewlett-Packard , and IBM.

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