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Almost half a century after the first e-mail crashed the communication link between the computer science department at UCLA and the Stanford Research Institute, the Internet stands at a tipping point.
So how did it get there?
The first time I heard about the world wide network was back in 1986, from an instructor in an undergraduate elective course I took called Introduction to COBOL Programming.
The instructor had been a systems analyst in the U.S. Air Force, and it was t
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Android users, take note: Google Keep -- a long-overdue app for creating lists and reminders -- has arrived.
