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Science history: First computer-to-computer message lays the foundation for the internet, but it crashes halfway through — Oct. 29, 1969

Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the ...
The New York Times

Daniel C. Lynch, Founder of Major Computer Exhibition, Dies at 82

After working on the earliest version of the internet, he saw its potential and founded a conference on computer networking equipment. By Katie Hafner Daniel C. Lynch, a computer network engineer ...
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates reflects upon a 50-year-old computer code that reshaped technology

This 1975 photo provided by Gates Ventures shows Microsoft founder Bill Gates holding a printout of the computer coding that launched the software maker. (Ian Allen/Gates Ventures via AP) (Ian Allen) ...
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The computer book : from the abacus to artificial intelligence, 250 milestones in the history of computer science / Simson L. Garfinkel and Rachel H. Grunspan

C. 2500 BCE: Sumerian abacus -- c. 700 BC: Scytale -- c. 150: Antikythera mechanism -- c. 60: Programmable robot -- c. 850: "On Deciphering Cryptographic Messages ...
The New York Times

A California Museum Weighs the Promise and Perils of Tech

Set in the heart of Silicon Valley, the Computer History Museum long cheered the developments around it. Now, it’s taking a more nuanced approach. Credit...By Loren Elliott For The New York Times ...
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Bridging the Gap in Computer Access and Media Literacy

Steve Adubato talks with Dylan Zajac, Founder of Computer 4 People, about bridging the gap in computer access, media literacy, and internet accessibility in New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts.