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@Mark Ollig At CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee was w...

@Mark Ollig In the late 1940s, people in many small towns struggled to get good television reception because broadcast towers were too far a...

@Mark Ollig Over the past 50-plus years, telecommunications has undergone remarkable change. Before electronic telephone central-office swit...

@Mark Ollig In 1955, IBM tested the XD-1, a new computer that brought large-scale, real-time computing into US air defense. It was evaluated...

@Mark Ollig Do you recall in 1995, sitting at your computer and listening to the modem’s beeps, screeches, and bursts of static as it negoti...