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Date: Sun, 15 May 1994 20:29:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Miles R Fidelman <fidelman@civicnet.org> To: com-priv@psi.com In-Reply-To: <199405132134.AA25771@radiomail.net> On Fri, 13 May 1994, Mark Stahlman wrote: > No, Henry that isn't what I said at all. The Internet was designed with > military (DOD) funds as a bombproof communications fabric to be used in > case of Armageddon. Federal research has been crucial for many of the > fundamental technologies we now take for granted. I'm very happy to pay my > taxes to support this valuable work. > Actually, the original ARPANET had a much more mundane primary rational: ARPA was funding lots of computer research in the late 60s, and at the time pretty much every computer system was unique -- i.e. researchers at Stanford couldn't just ship a tape to MIT of some useful software, since the software would only run on a specific one-of-a-kind machine. So, the notion of ARPANET was as much or more to allow researchers to log into each other's machines as it was to play with the potentially useful technology of packet switching. Miles ************************************************************************** Miles R. Fidelman mfidelman@civicnet.org Executive Director 91 Baldwin St. Charlestown MA 02129 The Center for Civic Networking 617-241-9205 fax: 617-241-5064 Check out our gopher server: CCN - The Center for Civic Networking on the list of all gopher servers in the world. Information Infrastructure: Public Spaces for the 21st Century Let's Start With: Internet Wall-Plugs Everywhere Say It Now, Say It Often: "I Want My Internet!" **************************************************************************
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