Arpanet: was 'The Web was invented by the British but exported to the US... We don't want that to happen again.'

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Wed May 24 17:42:07 PDT 2000


Where Wizards Stay Up Late claims that this had nothing to do with Arpanet. Is there anything to that position? Les Schaffer wrote:


>
> some more history; here's from my "Computer Networks, 3-rd Edition",
> Tannenbaum"
>
> ==================
>
> The ARPANET
>
> ... In the mid-1960's, at the height of the Cold War, the DoD wanted a
> command and control network that could survive a nuclear
> war. --

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