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Johnson, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) Surveys Volume 34 Issue 3, September 2002. May 28 - Virtual Time and Global States of Distributed Systems , Friedemann Mattern, Parallel and Distributed Algorithms, North-Holland (1989) , p. May 19 - Science of Winning Soccer: Emergent pattern-forming dynamics in association football , L.

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Iā€™d been using the Internet since about 1984, for email and newsgroups, sharing files like my white papers via ftp sites, but in the early 1990ā€™s the world wide web came along, and Sun was a very early adopter. Later on after some re-orgs we ended up reporting to Greg Papadopoulos, who was CTO of the server organization at the time.

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