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can you name private organizations that were involved in ARPANET build-up?
by borism 16y ago
can you name private organizations that were involved in ARPANET build-up?
- johngalt 16y agoBBN is the most well known. Additionally a lot of the early gear was produced by DEC and IBM. ARPANET didn't resemble anything close to the internet in it's current incarnation. Thank the government that you have a macbook to use, because they built ENIAC!
- borism 16y agoumm, so subcontractors to the government/academia? sure there were a lot of those. Still, for more than 20 years during 1970-90s private sector largely discarded ARPANet mutating into Internet as an academic toy. All while TCP/IP was invented by Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn at Stanford and HTML by Tim Berners Lee at CERN. Yup, two largely government-funded organisations again.