Mr. Taylor at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in California in an undated photo.Credit...Palo Alto Research Center Like many inventions, the internet was the work of countless hands. But perhaps no one deserves more credit for that world-changing technological leap than Robert W. Taylor, who died on Thursday at 85 at his home in Woodside, Calif. Indeed, few people were as instrumental in shapi
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