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Could group one make theirs all fall? Could group two make theirs not fall? The race was on!
And so the ward party began. The cups cascaded down three times but were back up by the time time was up. The dominoes fell where and if they felt like it but had to be told what to do.
And then a To Tell The Truth game, with my hubby as a contestant. Who had made the first ever mobile phone call and from where to where?
And the answer was the guy who’d worked at Stanford Research International from the time it was new. The place where the mouse was invented before Xerox or Apple ever heard of it, where DARPA net started its evolution into the internet. Basically, the roots of Silicon Valley grew where and when Don was there and he later wrote SRI’s history.
And the young tech workers learned something new from the old while a good time was had by all.
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