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		| Paper: | A Review of the History of VLBI |  
		| Volume: | 300, Radio Astronomy at the Fringe |  
		| Page: | 1 |  
		| Authors: | Clark, B.G. |  
		| Abstract: | I briefly review the history of VLBI. I start with a review of the lines of evidence that lead to the belief that very long baseline interferometry was a desireable and necessary devlopment of instrumentation.  I then briefly mention the first efforts to construct VLBI instruments.  I finally look back over the past thirty years and call out several themes that have devleoped over the years. |  
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