<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:46 AM, John Day <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeanjour@comcast.net" target="_blank">jeanjour@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I think the nuclear war meme is really more tightly associated with the Internet than the ARPANET.  </blockquote></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">​Hmm, that makes sense. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">(D)ARPAnet initially had fixed routing, not useful in damage-prone environment.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">It was ​TCP/IP that introduced adaptive routing around damage. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">(USEnet evolved adaptive routing, i don't recall how that was related .)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Also note that the Military nearly adopted the ISO OSI protocol stack not the TCP/IP Internet stack, even though DARPA had subsidized the (pre-Web/NSF/NSCC) development ! </div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Bill Ricker<br><a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a><div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux</a> <br></div></div></div>
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