... Between 1971 and 1979, PARC scientists invented the first truly personal computer, the first windows-based graphical user interface, the first user-friendly word processing program, the first adjustable screen and printer fonts, the computer mouse, the laser printer, and the Ethernet networking protocol to tie local ... Its fabled Palo Alto Research Center, PARC, gave birth to the mouse, the graphical user interface, and Ethernet -- but it was other companies, including Microsoft, Apple Computer and 3Com that parlayed those inventions into multibillion-dollar industries. The list of misse...

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... repeaters are simple devices that interconnect group of users. Hubs forward any data packets they receive over one port from one workstation; including e-mail, word processing documents, spreadsheets, graphics or print requests; to all of their remaining ports. All users connected to a single hub or stack of connected ... and make your own Web Site. The basic tool for creating a Web site is Web authoring software, which can be as simple as a word processor with the ability to convert the final result to HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) for publishing on the Web. HTML is a cross-platform ...

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