“IBM would give me as much as I wanted ... I could use it as much as I wanted ... I never had a scarcity of machine time.”

The Peterman Pod · The Story Behind Creating DNS | Paul Mockapetris

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took a part-time job at IBM that gave him unrestricted access to the company's largest computer for his own projects

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