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Depending on how you look at it, the Internet turned 50 years old last
week (
) . On October 29, 1969, the first message was transmitted between two
of the four nodes that made up ARPANET, the Internet's predecessor
network. ARPANET was created after a million dollars earmarked for
ballistic missile defense was diverted from the Advanced Research
Projects Agency budget to research packet-switched networks. It's said
that ARPANET was designed to survive a nuclear war; there's plenty of
debate about whether that was a specific design goal, but if it was,
it certainly didn't look promising out of the gate, since the system
crashed after only two characters of the first message were sent. So
happy birthday, Internet, and congratulations: you're now old enough
to start getting junk mail from the AARP ( ) ."
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8@...
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
