Ramana Rao: "Before the Internet
Ramana Rao: "Before the Internet became the Internet, I had access to perhaps one of the finest Intranets of all times at Xerox PARC in the
early eighties. There were amazing documents available, and it really deepened my appreciation of directly reaching the ideas of other living people through documents lying around on networks.
And to top things off there was a great library at PARC as measured in the quality of the librarians. Once I asked one of them, Kathy Jarvis, about famous papers. She pulled out a folder of papers with the word "Seminal" scrawled on a bunch of Xerox manuscripts. Many of these are now well-known because of various popular historical accounts and because the Internet is now full of people that also found these documents."