Carol Shaw’s Home Page: You know you were on the Web early when you’ve got a domain name like this. And you know you run in wicked geek circles when you’re married to this guy — read the entire front page on his site. This guy’s got geek cred dripping out his ears.
The scenario I get is that he was a way, way early adopter of the Web (working at PARC for 11 years will do that), and somehow married a woman who wanted her own Web page, and was early enough to get her first name as a domain.
These two are like the Barbie and Ken of geeks. Last I checked, my wife didn’t have a Web site, much less one with a page for Molecular Assembly Sequence Software.
This is the story of Xerox's famed Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). PARC was created as a research playground for Xerox engineers in the sixties. By the time its heyday was over 15 or so years later, PARC had developed such products as the laser printer, the mouse,…
Did you follow the link about the project his dad was leading up? http://www.merkle.com/pluto/pluto.html - Project Pluto (The Flying Crowbar) - At the dawn of the atomic age, scientists began work on what might have been the nastiest weapon ever conceived.
Crazy stuff!