a quick summary of what xerox parc had invented by 1979
- the personal computer
- the laser printer
- ethernet
- word processing
- the windows graphical user interface
- object-oriented programming
- digitial video editing
- an internetworking protocol
wow.
Update: This is, by the way, my third blog post. Ever. Anyway, the reason I wrote it and the reason I’m updating it is to say that at the time I posted this, I was reading an excellent book about the history of Xerox Parc called Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age. Check it out.