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      • Academic press dictionary of science and technology
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      • Milestones in science and technology: the ready reference guide to discoveries, inventions, and facts
        
        
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• Wikipedia

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• Startup.com (documentary on an internet startup company)
• Triumph of the Nerds (the beginnings of the personal computer and the internet told by those who did it)
  
  

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