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Sun's History in Pictures

Sun was a tech juggernaut for nearly three decades. This memorial slideshow traces the rise and fall of Sun Microsystems.

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The network is the computer (1984) 4 of 14

Contrary to popular belief, the slogan "the network is the computer" was coined not by Scott McNealy but by John Gage, Sun's fifth employee, in 1984. A colleague of Bill Joy from UC Berkeley, Gage was a math instructor who grew fascinated by computers and went on to become the public face of Sun. His motto predicted cloud computing. Until Sun went off in all directions, it worked as the company's unifying principle.

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