The computer graphics industry got started at the university of Utah
The University of Utah was also the fourth node of ARPANET, the predecessor of the internet - <a href="https://www.lib.utah.edu/digital-scholarship/arpanet/" rel="nofollow">https://www.lib.utah.edu/digital-scholarship/arpanet/</a><p>On a personal note, this is also part of why I exist at all.<p>My father came from England very young, worked his way through agriculture jobs in California, and somehow found himself with a job offer at the u of u as an electron microscopist. Met my mom there. Details are fuzzy and not retrievable from the dead. For some reason this job required him early access to the „internet“ in the 80s.<p>In 1994, we were, as I was told at the time, one of the first families to “have internet” in Utah. We had a dial up connection that lasted 15 minutes before needing to reconnect. As anyone my age remembers, that was about as long as it took to load one webpage with one image.<p>It was a massive influence on me and my neighborhood friends in countless ways and I’m eternally grateful for what came of it.