I was a bit earlier than you - I was at Hazeltine late 1950's/early 1960's (thence on to Fulton.)
I wasn't joking, however, about how many of those of us who went on to work on ARPAnet and thence Internet ideas came from the Van Nuys area.
Karl Auerbach
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2026-05-04 06:31:44 UTC
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