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Digital Past - less with us

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gilder.com • Mon 2011 Mar 28, 9:37pm

The reason why we have internet packet switching: The late Paul Baran.

bizjournals.com • Wed 2009 Jun 10, 7:36pm

After nearly two decades in the business, Microsoft plans to stop selling its Microsoft Money personal-finance software...

education.zdnet.com • Tue 2009 Mar 31, 4:07pm

The encyclopedia is dead. Long live critical thinking. ... I'm not saying Encarta was a bad product. On the contrary, it did a fine job of making encyclopedic articles searchable and accessible on a computer. However, I'm thrilled to see it go because of what it represents. Kids will just go to Wikipedia or the first three hits on Google, now, right? While that remains too true, what it really represents is the absolute challenge to educators to teach kids real Web-based research skills. Leave the encyclopedias behind and dig.