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 ● Elise Gerich was a product manager at Juniper Networks. Prior to joining Juniper

in 2001, she held various management and technical positions at Urban Media

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excerpt. These achievements have come from her ability to explain complicated

technology concepts. Rouse writes this article expmaing the world wide web and how it

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doesn’t know anything, it gives a good gist and explaination of creation and

history of the network. It explains the expansion and growth it went through over

the years during the cold war era.