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Stanford University & roles in the creation and expansion of the modern Internet

 Stanford University has played one of the most crucial roles in the creation and expansion of the modern Internet.    The story begins in 1939, when two Stanford engineering students, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, founded Hewlett-Packard in a small garage on Addison Avenue in Palo Alto. Guided by their mentor, Professor Frederick Terman, often called “The Father of Silicon Valley,”  Hewlett and Packard transformed a simple audio oscillator project into a business empire. Terman encouraged students to turn research into real-world innovation, laying the foundation for Silicon Valley. Through the 1950s and 1960s, Stanford began leasing campus land to technology companies through the Stanford Industrial Park, attracting pioneers like Lockheed, General Electric, and Varian Associates.  This collaboration between academia, industry, and the U.S. defense sector created a thriving ecosystem for research, experimentation, and entrepreneurship. In 1964, at the Stanford...

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