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>ethernet Xerox >GUI Xerox >laser printers Xerox >cryptography Maybe the Babylonian empire? Look i stop here..super-computing , TOR, LISP or Ada is not
by nix23 5y ago
>ethernet
Xerox
>GUI
Xerox
>laser printers
Xerox
>cryptography
Maybe the Babylonian empire?
Look i stop here..super-computing , TOR, LISP or Ada is not a driving force, they are a product...you could have said WWW made at cern...but hey
- georgia_peach 5y agoXerox, under a fat DARPA grant. If you read Kay's "Early History of Smalltalk", or any of the other writeups on PARC projects, it's a genealogy of DARPA projects: http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/ http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/ As for actual innovations, porn still scores bupkis.