When was the National Science Foundation formed? Oh, 1950s. It’s hard to imagine a world where the influence of modern computerized science, especially that sponsored under the National Science Foundation, European Science Foundation, or otherwise, is not the norm.
The Wikipedia article on the National Science Foundation unfortunately does not have all that interesting and insightful history as I would have expected, though.
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