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Same as every small-government conservative, going right back to Heinlein: the military doesn't count. ARPANET was a military operation.
by Pxtl 9y ago
Same as every small-government conservative, going right back to Heinlein: the military doesn't count. ARPANET was a military operation.
- justin66 9y agoOf course, most of the really great stuff had been funded by ARPA before the whole thing became DARPA. Weren't a lot of the Xerox PARC people refugees from that whole process?
- scroot 9y agoNot just refugees. The way Alan Kay describes it, PARC was essentially in the spirit of ARPA, one if the last great efforts that could be said to come from that culture. Part of the reason, he claims, is that Bob Taylor (veteran of ARPA and IPTO) managed to convince Xerox to make such a lab with minimal interference just as the old guard of ARPA funders saw their resources begin to dry up.