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[PEN-L:6930] Re: I'm afraid to say this...
At 3:22 PM 10/25/96, Tom Walker wrote:
>No, Doug, first things first: SPUTNIK -- October 4, 1957 -- *then* the
>establishment of the Advanced Research Projects Administration (ARPA)
>spawner of ARPANET, begetter of internet.
But computers themselves were subsidized heavily by the U.S. war machine
from the 1940s onwards. They didn't become commercially self-sustaining
until the mid-1960s.
Doug
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