[8632] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: RFC1000 (Partial respponse to part 1)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tansin A. Darcos & Company)
Sun Nov 28 11:14:17 1993
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1993 11:04:30 -0500 (EST)
From: "Tansin A. Darcos & Company" <0005066432@mcimail.com>
Reply-To: "Tansin A. Darcos & Company" <0005066432@mcimail.com>
To: Stephen D Crocker <crocker@tis.com>,
>From: Paul Robinson <TDARCOS@MCIMAIL.COM>
Organization: Tansin A. Darcos & Company, Silver Spring, MD USA
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In a conversation between Stephen D Crocker and Michael Hauben:
SDC>MH>SDC> The procurement of the ARPANET was initiated in the summer
> > > of 1968 -- Remember Vietnam, flower children, etc?
> > > there had been prior
> >
>MH> Why is the summer of '68 connected to the procurement of the
> > ARPANET? Can someone explain the significance of this? This is a
> > very interesting statement and I would be interested if anyone
> > has any understanding as to its meaning.
SDC>
> Summer of 1968 was when the procurement was initiated. There
> had been earlier experiments and theorectical work in
> networking for several years previously. The only explicit
> connection to the political climate was the motivation to
> build networks that would survive nuclear war.
Well, here's an almost that's too good to pass up. During the Gulf War,
when the U.S. (along with a few other countries) was bombing the Kuwait
out of Iraq, the U.S. was still, despite all the capabilities it had, was
unable to knock out Saddam's Command and Control facilities.
What was Iraq using that was resistant to all the bombing?
TCP/IP, of course.
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