> Wasn't the Internet initially a distributed communication network that would still operate under nuclear attacks? Not really. The original ARPANET [0] didn't

> Wasn't the Internet initially a distributed communication network that would still operate under nuclear attacks? Not really. The original ARPANET [0] didn't connect military command and control systems but four different universities. However, the packet-switching concept that underlies TCP/IP was informed by purely RAND theoretical studies, conducted by Paul Baran [1], that looked at building resilient communications systems. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baran