Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Posts: 1048
Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh
Post subject: Why was the internet created? A false truth taught.
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When and where was the Internet invented?
The media tells us that the Internet was invented to help the United States defend itself against nuclear attacks. That story is not true. ARPA was the government agency that oversaw the construction of the earliest network, named ARPAnet. Charles M. Herzfeld, the former director of ARPA, explained:
Why was the ARPAnet started? Most of the early "history" on the subject is wrong. As Director of ARPA at the time, I can tell you our intent. The ARPAnet was not started to create a Command and Control System that would survive a nuclear attack, as many now claim.
As we can see from the above statements, what happened was that in the telling and the retelling of why the Internet was invented, facts became obscured, lost, and added, and we forget why the Internet was invented. The story of how the Internet was invented to enable access to supercomputers evolved into the myth that the Internet was invented to enable the United States to survive a nuclear attack.
The less glamorous truth is that the Internet was funded and built to let mathematical physicists solve their most computation-intensive problems. The Internet was invented to allow computational scientists to access and use supercomputers from remote locations. In the words of the former director of ARPA:
The ARPAnet came out of our frustration that there were only a limited number of large, powerful research computers in the country, and that many research investigators who should have access to them were geographically separated from them.
Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 376
Location: Savar, Dhaka
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I think, I even read it in the text book that Internet was created to survive nuclear wars. So nothing can destroy everything at once! What is the proof that this person is right?
Well...my existing knowledge on the creation of internet matches with what that guy (charles) says.
Dude, can you remember the name of that text book you are referring to ? _________________ Keep your own dignity, both online and offline throughout your life !!!
Tue Jun 08, 04 6:46 am
dude Power User
Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 376
Location: Savar, Dhaka
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hmm...I remember. It was named Ten Ways to Not Listen to Mastermind.
I think it was in HSC computer fundamental. I shall see if I can find it again. I can be wrong.
hmm...I remember. It was named Ten Ways to Not Listen to Mastermind.
That clears everything !!! That's a crap book. Just ten ways are not enough for trying not to listen to mastermind...you need to learn and try a thousand ways....
Anyway, if that info was from an HSC text book then I'll say its very sad (but not surprising I suppose ! ) _________________ Keep your own dignity, both online and offline throughout your life !!!
