It was thus that in the second half of 1969-amid the static of Woodstock,...

It was thus that in the second half of 1969-amid the static of Woodstock, Chappaquiddick, Vietnam War protests, Charles Manson, the Chicago Eight trial, and Altamont-the culmination was reached for three historic enterprises, each in the making for almost a decade. NASA was able to send a man to the moon. Engineers in Silicon Valley were able to devise a way to put a programmable computer on a chip called a microprocessor. And ARPA created a network that could connect distant computers. Only the first of these {perhaps the least historically significant of them?} made headlines. THE

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