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Everything was digital at UC Berkeley back in the early 1990s and before.

> Everything was digital at UC Berkeley back in the early 1990s and before.

I can't believe I have to say this, but not every university is UC-Berkeley. Digitization isn't free and requires specialized labor and technology.

And are you really saying that in the late 1980s, all dissertations were submitted digitally? In what format?

I should have qualified this with "the engineering departments at UC Berkeley". Everything we put out (papers, technical reports, open source software) was on the Internet. Formats were varied; LaTeX and Postscript were commonly used. PDF a bit later.

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