Living in the San Francisco Bay area in the 1960s and '70s, infonetics Research principal analyst and co-founder Michael Howard got to see the emergence of the free-speech movement first hand, So the question is, did he wear tie-dyed clothing and have long hair? "Oh, sure, I was a. programmer, and the programmers that I worked with, we were the hippie types," Howard says. "The engineers were more likely to wear the ties to work." After his graduation from UC-Berkeley, Howard helped develop operating systems and programming language compilers for ARPANET, though he didn't know that ARPANET would evolve into the giobal phenomenon called the Internet. "At the time, I thought it was amazing that all these different kinds of computers could talk to one another, and that scientists and researchers could talk with one another," Howard says. "It was all absolutely fascinating, but there was no way I imagined it was going to become what it is,"
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