Somehow I find it fitting to quote the Britannica on Project MAC: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Project-Mac https://www.britannica.com/topic/Project-Mac "P

Somehow I find it fitting to quote the Britannica on Project MAC: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Project-Mac https://www.britannica.com/topic/Project-Mac "Project MAC, in full Project on Mathematics and Computation, a collaborative computer endeavour in the 1960s that sought to to create a functional time-sharing system. Project MAC, founded in 1963 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was funded by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) and the National Science Foundation. The goal for the project was to allow many users access to the programs of a single computer from various locations. Project MAC’s pioneering exploration of the working methods of multiple-user access became a foundation for modern computer networking and online collaboration."