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> But it wasn't changes in government policy that made this possible. It was the rise of microcomputers and networks that made this possible The history of com
by scroot 8y ago
> But it wasn't changes in government policy that made this possible. It was the rise of microcomputers and networks that made this possible
The history of computing is precisely one of government policy, namely the ARPA funding from the 60s and early 70s.
- nitrogen 8y agoMicrocomputers came in part from the homebrew computer scene in the 70s.
- scroot 8y agoThat's true, but these were iterations on materials and systems that already existed — things that came from the research community. Much of what we call personal computing today wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the ARPA research community that was funded and established during the IPTO's existence. That includes the Internet and everything created at Xerox PARC.