[ih] When the words Internet was design to survive a nuclear war appeared for the first time?
Miles Fidelman
mfidelman at meetinghouse.net
Thu Feb 14 08:23:39 PST 2019
Nice!
On 2/14/19 10:28 AM, Scott O. Bradner wrote:
> when did people start saying that or what was the reason they said that?
>
> fwiw - I just gave a talk on the latter
>
> http://www.sobco.com/presentations/2019-02-05-Internet-history-bkc.pdf
>
> a video will be posted at some point on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/user/BerkmanCenter under 2018-2019 talks
>
> Scott
>
>> On Feb 14, 2019, at 8:44 AM, Alejandro Acosta <alejandroacostaalamo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Today I was reading some news about Internet and in one of them I
>> found the phrase (that all of you have listened before): "Internet
>> (ARPANET) was intended to survive a nuclear war", however, as far as I
>> know, this is kind of a myth, right?, ARPANET was intended as a research
>> network and the "war" part if very far away from the thuth.
>>
>> My question would be: when the words "designed to survive a nuclear
>> war" appeared for the first time?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>> Alejandro,
>>
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