The History of Computers
During My Lifetime

I predict the Internet ... will soon go spectacularly supernova and in
1996 catastrophically collapse. ... I'll eat my words if I'm wrong.

— Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet), 1995

by Jason Robert Carey Patterson, last updated Jan 2011 (orig Dec 1994)

Index - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s

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