The Network is the Computer
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"The Network is the Computer" is a slogan that was originally coined by John Gage for Sun Microsystems in 1984.[1][2][3][4][5] Contrary to popular belief, the slogan was not coined by Scott McNealy.[6] Wired dubbed the phrase a "truism of Silicon Valley".[7]
Sun Microsystems originally started using the slogan in the 1980s.
In 2019, the content delivery network and DDoS mitigation company Cloudflare took the rights of the slogan by registering it.
Sun employee Larry Wake said of the slogan, "When Sun originated that tag line in the early 1980s, it was actually quite audacious. It was a stake in the ground [stating] ‘Computers should be networked, or they're… not computers. Well, at least, you're missing their potential by a country mile.'"[1]