And there they communicated almost nonstop, a digital chatter that would be the envy of today’s Internet junkies. On the Alto network Xerox employees started the first on-line clubs, played the first networked computer games, even completed the first joint research projects without ever meeting their partners face to face. “At PARC I received my first electronic junk mail, my first electronic job acceptance, and first electronic obituary,” recalled one lab supervisor.
