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How The Internet Got Started
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Some thirty years ago , the Rand corporation , America's formost cold
war think tank, faced a strange straegic problem. How could the US authrieties
succesfully communicate after a nuclear war?
Postnuclear America would need a comand-and-control network, linked from
city to city , state to state, ....
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....ntagon sponsor.
The four computers could even be programed remotely from the other nodes.
thanks to ARPANET scientists and researchers could share one another's computer
facilities by long -distance . This was a very handy service , for computer-
time was precious in the early ‘70s. In 1971 ther were fifteen nodes in
Arpanet; by 1972, thirty-seven nodes. And it was good.
As early as 1977, TCP/IP was being used by other networks to link to
ARPANET. ARPANET itself remained fairly tigh.... |
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