ARPANET

A book I’m currently reading, “The Innovators” (Walter Isaacson), was detailing a chronological history of key moments in technology and I was surprised to see Gatlinburg, TN get a mention. Apparently in October 1967, at the Mountain View Hotel, the Association for Computing Machinery held their Symposium on Operating System principles and it was where the plans for ARPANET were first publicly presented and some pivotal planning meetings/discussions took place to give rise to what would eventually become the internet.
It’s just interesting that a place I mostly think of as a tourist destination that we visit most every year is also a historical site for tech.