…netbooks
….microsoft azure
… google apps, chrome OS
…mobile internet devices
…internet-enabled televisions and set-top boxes

We take it for granted now, but it was over 25 years ago that a man by the name of John Gage said it first: “The Network is the Computer“.   At the time, he was one of the first few employees at a small startup in Santa Clara, and this prescient statement became their unofficial motto.

That company was Sun Microsystems.

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