The phrase was first coined in 1984 by John Gage, the 21st employee of Sun Microsystems, where he was credited with building Sun’s vision around “The Network is the Computer.” Now CDN company Cloudflare has successfully registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office the trademark for the phrase, ‘The Network is the Computer.’

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