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VK2AWZ > INTERN 20.04.17 00:37l 18 Lines 600 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Internet Founder dies
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From: VK2AWZ@VK6ZRT.#BUN.#WA.AUS.OC
To : INTERN@WW
One of the founding fathers of the internet, Robert Taylor, has died.
While working at the Pentagon in the 1960s, he instigated the creation of
Arpanet - a computer network that initially linked together four US
research centres, and later evolved into the internet.
At Xerox, he later oversaw the first computer with desktop-inspired icons
and a word processor that formed the basis of Microsoft Word.
Mr Taylor died at home aged 85.
His family told the Los Angeles Times that he had suffered from
Parkinson's disease among other ailments.
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