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A big piece of the puzzle is missing from the article. Government funding to academic endeavors was drastically reduced across the board in the 1970s, thanks to
by nopenopenopeno 4y ago
A big piece of the puzzle is missing from the article. Government funding to academic endeavors was drastically reduced across the board in the 1970s, thanks to sweeping neoliberal reforms. Mass privatization took over and businessmen started running everything.
Computer historians always downplay this major historical hingepoint for a few reasons, but usually because doing so helps conceal just how much the modern computer industry depends on technology which could only have been developed by the public sector.
- joak 4y agoI met the guy in 2005 and he was deeply sad about that. After "the mother of all demos", showing internet, mouse, windows, videocalls, etc for the first time. They said to him you'll get all that budget to come up with so little. They cut his budget. It was only in the nineties that he got proper recognition.