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The Internet Appealed to Jeff or to Jeff's Radar

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The internet appealed to technical librarians at this point in history. That's probably the best way to describe the cult following that bootstrapped the original network of the internet. It was academics and it was people who loved libraries and programming. The counterculture movement had kind of died down and morphed into this out in California.

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