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Re:100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born by doubloon on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @10:48PM (#39366220)
Because Edwin Black wrote a book about it right around the time Silicon Valley kept lecturing people how it could do no wrong and would save the world.

Also because someone could have written a similar book about how IBM helped Stalin and the Communists but most anti-communists don't want to rehash old problems that would only hurt one of their best friends and best returning stocks.

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Re:100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born by mynameisnoone on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @11:41PM (#39366561)
It's a dirty, open secret that Stanford and most ivy leagues also participated in and continue to benefit from the military-industrial complex.

And checkout this partial list of openly-known startups with In-Q-Tel (CIA-affiliated) VC funding:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel#Investments

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Re:100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born by TheOtherHobbes on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @05:39AM (#39368431)
I think many people have realised that FAANG is just a rebrand of mil-ind decorated with brightly coloured office furniture.
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Re:100 Years Ago, IBM Was Born by Aerbil313 on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @06:12AM (#39368580)
The list is shocking for me, and an even more shocking thought is that probably most of these startups are useless today. Google alone can now provide maybe more half of the technologies these startups tried to achieve in the 2000s.
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