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By HAMZA SHABAN | The Washington Post | Published: April 27, 2021 During the final minutes of the Trump presidency, an obscure company in South Florida announced to the world s computer networks that it would begin managing a massive swath of the internet owned by the U.S. military. In the months since, the company has claimed control of nearly 175 million IP addresses. Such huge chunks of traditional internet real estate, amounting to almost 6% of usable addresses in the original addressing scheme of the web, would be worth billions of dollars on the open market. With no public explanation of what had taken place, the dramatic shift in IP address space allotment sparked impassioned speculation among network administrators and the internet industry. That interest only increased when the Pentagon, after weeks of inquiries from The Washington Post, finally offered an explanation.
Adobe Co-Founder Charles Geschke, Pioneer of Desktop Publishing and PDFs, Dies at Age 81
04/18/2021 | 11:16am EDT
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By James R. Hagerty
Charles Geschke, who studied Latin and liberal arts as an undergraduate and once considered the priesthood, discovered computer programming more or less by accident in the 1960s. That led to a job at Xerox Corp. s research arm in Silicon Valley, where he bonded with a colleague, John Warnock. They worked on software that eventually would translate words and images on a computer screen into printed documents. When Xerox was slow to recognize the potential of their ideas, the two men bolted in 1982 and formed what is now Adobe Inc., a software colossus with a market value of about $250 billion, or around 50 times the current value of the company they left behind. Adobe software spawned desktop publishing with such familiar programs as Photoshop, Acrobat and Illustrator, along with the ubiquitous Portable Docum