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American History 1988

``` Debt, economic decline, immigration; hippies, anti-government, freedom. At the end of the 1980s, a wave of change encompassed a country boy from the Rust Belt. As the gate for upward mobility was on the verge of closing, he struggled to move forward. College, Silicon Valley, entrepreneurship; HP, Apple, Microsoft. To become part of the 1%, or even 0.1%, he sacrificed a lot, but also gained a lot. ```

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Chapter 133 Rocket Man

"I was one of the participants in the NSF network privatization," Dean said, brandishing tiger's skin as a banner, but in a sense, it wasn't wrong. It was enough to bluff the people at Compuserve.

Dean had to digest this for a while before Macy uncertainly broke the silence, "Are you saying you hold a position at the National Science Foundation office?"

"No," Dean chuckled, shaking his head, "I'm a Stanford student, and Stanford is one of NSF's major nodes. My teachers and professors are all old friends with the NSF's director, Stephen.

Many of the technical verifications of the NSFnet were carried out in Stanford's laboratories, and I was responsible for the interconnection issues between different network operators. I wrote the technical agreement."

"So, Dean, you have access to Stephen at the National Science Foundation, right?" Robert Macy quickly seized on the important point.