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by 8bitsrule 1428 days ago
"Amazingly, Herzog concludes that Ted is the only sane person in the computer field." [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqx6li5dbEY]

At the time Ted conceived his visionary ideas, the magazines were full of pictures of guys in suits standing in front of secretaries typing into screenless hardware, and business machines with racks of IBM tape-reels. There was little non-corporate networking (except for the beginnings of PLATO), and only dreamers talked of making all information available to everyone. Wikipedia is a kludge by comparison.