Looking Back on Looking Back

A 1996 history of computers. Curiously for that year, the Internet isn’t mentioned, despite an onscreen appearance by Arpanet innovator Bob Taylor. At that time the minicomputer industry, that had been a driving economic force here in Massachusetts for 25 years, was on its last legs.

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I became an Amazon customer in August, 1996. My first order was a gift for “Rose is Rose” cartoonist Pat Brady who, to my surprise, wasn’t familiar with Winsor McCay.

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