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I'm mildly amused by comments about the "militarization" of the Internet given its origins.
by dweekly 8y ago
I'm mildly amused by comments about the "militarization" of the Internet given its origins.
- bem94 8y agoPerhaps re-militarisation would be more accurate?
- msla 8y agohttps://www.internetsociety.org/internet/history-internet/brief-history-internet/ https://www.internetsociety.org/internet/history-internet/br... Just to keep in mind: > It was from the RAND study that the false rumor started claiming that the ARPANET was somehow related to building a network resistant to nuclear war. This was never true of the ARPANET, only the unrelated RAND study on secure voice considered nuclear war. However, the later work on Internetting did emphasize robustness and survivability, including the capability to withstand losses of large portions of the underlying networks.
- Gpetrium 8y agoThe internet has always been militarized, it is just that some actors have picked up the pace (tech know-how, capabilities, etc) and that we are now seeing more emphasis in looking at the issue.