"The distributed network was originally designed to nudge the US ahead of the Soviets, allowing scientists’ and government leaders’ computers to communicate eve

"The distributed network was originally designed to nudge the US ahead of the Soviets, allowing scientists’ and government leaders’ computers to communicate even in the event of a nuclear attack. " https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-soviets-invented-the-internet-and-why-it-didn-t-work https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-soviets-invented-the-internet... No no no, the Arpanet was never designed to survive a nuclear war, the originators are even quoted as saying so. footnotes 5: http://www.internetsociety.org/internet/what-internet/history-internet/brief-history-internet http://www.internetsociety.org/internet/what-internet/histor...