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Xerox invented the modern computer here—graphical interfaces, the mouse, Ethernet—then watched Apple and Microsoft commercialize it all.
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- 1970–present · still open
Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center)Research Laboratory
Xerox invented the modern computer here—graphical interfaces, the mouse, Ethernet—then watched Apple and Microsoft commercialize it all.
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