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How the internet got started
Title: How the internet got started
Category: Science & Technology / Internet
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How the internet got started
Some thirty years ago , the Rand corporation , America's formost cold war think
tank, faced a strange straegic problem. How could the US authrieties succesfully
communicate after a nuclear war?
Postnuclear America would need a comand-and-control network, linked from city
to city , state to state, base to base . But no matter how throughly that network was
armored or protected , its switches and wiring would always be vulnerable to the impact
of atomic bombs. A nuclear attack
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"snailmail"File transfers allow Internet users to access remote machines and retrieve
programs or text. Many internet computers allow any person to acess them anonymously
to simply copy their public files,free of charge. Entire books can be transferred through
direct access in a matter of minutes.
Finding a link to the Internet will become easier and cheaper. At the turn of the
century,Network literacy will be forcing itself into every individuals life.
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