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In 1969, he was part of a team of young engineers who built the first machine to switch data among computers using the Arpanet, the precursor to the internet. By Katie Hafner David Walden, a computer ...

It was the late 1960s and computer centers were springing up on college campuses and research centers around the country. But sharing information between those centers? That was extremely difficult to ...