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Doug’s Dream
Engelbart had been a radar technician during World War II and had come across Vannevar Bush’s article 1945 “As We May Think,” which was a ma
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Meet the Man Behind the Other Mouse
The year after Martin Luther King made his “I Have a Dream” speech, Doug Engelbart got funding for his dream.
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Space—The Final Frontier
The Space Race was on during the 1960s and the United States continued to lag behind. According to Jennings and Brewster (1998), the space
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Civil Rights and Wrongs
While civil rights had been seeded at the turn of the Twentieth Century with the Niagara movement and WEB Dubois’s novel Up From Slavery, an
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Taking It to the Streets—A Very Violent Time
The 1960s began with the building of the Berlin Wall, separating East and West Berlin, presaging what a divided decade the 1960s would be.
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You Say You Want a Revolution . . .
During the 1960s a revolutionary spirit seemed to sweep through the Zeitgeist.
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