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[ NNSquad ] How the atom bomb helped give birth to the Internet (part 1)
How the atom bomb helped give birth to the Internet (part 1) http://j.mp/g6HSy3 (ars technica) This is an excellent read. A particularly interesting aspect of this first installment is its quite appropriate highlighting of RAND's role in the development of ARPANET/Internet. Many years ago, I was affiliated at various times with RAND, and I liked to say that RAND had this special characteristic of telling clients the truth -- even when the details probably weren't what those parties had hoped for in the resulting reports. RAND's early work with UNIX (if memory serves, we were the first non-AT&T entity other than educational institutions to have a UNIX source license) and NCP -- the predecessor of TCP/IP -- also played very important roles among many other associated contributions. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Google Buzz: http://bit.ly/lauren-buzz Quora: http://www.quora.com/Lauren-Weinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com