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How Computing Was Built
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This dimension groups computing systems by their license. Wikipedia notes that "Linux distributions are dominant in the server and supercomputing sectors and number in the thousands," many of them released under different open source licenses from their proprietary counterparts. Browsing this way collects every system released under the same license.

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Era of Emergence
1969 CE 1
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1. Wikipedia: ARPANET
WikipediaARPANET, Creation section, IMP contract sentence
Quote, ARPANET, Creation section, IMP contract sentence
In 1969, ARPA awarded the contract to build the Interface Message Processors (IMPs) for the network to Bolt Beranek & Newman (BBN).
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