Robert Taylor, internet and computer pioneer, dies aged 85

• Work for Pentagon in 1960s helped develop internet precursor Arpanet
• Xerox work in Palo Alto fed the birth of Windows and Apple computers

Robert Taylor, who was instrumental in creating the internet and the modern personal computer, has died. He was 85.

Taylor, who had Parkinson's disease, died on Thursday at his home in the San Francisco peninsula community of Woodside, his son, Kurt Taylor, told the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times.