<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<body style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif;">
<div dir="auto">
<div id="aqm-original" style="color: black; font-family: sans-serif;">
<div dir="auto">On February 14, 2019 09:13:42 Alejandro Acosta <alejandroacostaalamo@gmail.com> wrote:</div></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, "Liberation Serif", serif;"><br></div><div id="aqm-original" style="color: black; font-family: sans-serif;" dir="auto"><div dir="auto"></div><blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 0.75ex; border-left: 1px solid #808080; padding-left: 0.75ex;">
<div dir="auto"><br></div>
<div dir="auto"> Today I was reading some news about Internet and in one of them I</div>
<div dir="auto">found the phrase (that all of you have listened before): "Internet</div>
<div dir="auto">(ARPANET) was intended to survive a nuclear war", however, as far as I</div>
<div dir="auto">know, this is kind of a myth, right?, ARPANET was intended as a research</div>
<div dir="auto">network and the "war" part if very far away from the thuth.</div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, "Liberation Serif", serif;"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, "Liberation Serif", serif;">my take on that is that there were two lines of thought leading up to the</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, "Liberation Serif", serif;">ARPAnet. very very roughly: one was paul baran's, who was thinking</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, "Liberation Serif", serif;">about how the military <span style="font-size: 12pt;">command and control might be able to continue functioning in the event of </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">an attack, and JCR Licklider, who was thinking</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, "Liberation Serif", serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">about how wide-spread researchers could share resources, ideas and results </span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, "Liberation Serif", serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">to better collaborate.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, "Liberation Serif", serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, "Liberation Serif", serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">when the ARPAnet got funded by the DoD, Baran's story was the easier to</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, "Liberation Serif", serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">understand to the average person, raather than the more diaphanous idea</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, "Liberation Serif", serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">of researcher collaboration. so Baran's take kinda caught the public</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, "Liberation Serif", serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">imagination, but the reality for those of us working on it was the it was</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, "Liberation Serif", serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">{somehow :o)} to be a research tool. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, "Liberation Serif", serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, "Liberation Serif", serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">/Bernie\</span></div>
<div dir="auto"><br></div>
<div id="aqm-signature" dir="auto" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, "Liberation Serif", serif;"><div style="margin: 0; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif;"> Bernie Cosell</div><div style="margin: 0; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif;"> bernie@fantasyfarm. com</div><div style="margin: 0; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, 'Liberation Serif', serif;">— Too many people, too few sheep —</div></div>
</div></body>
</html>