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Corollary: any great technology, the first 10 years they came out, were totally unnecessary. Internet in the 70s? Totally unnecessary for practical uses in th
by metacritic12 4y ago
Corollary: any great technology, the first 10 years they came out, were totally unnecessary. Internet in the 70s? Totally unnecessary for practical uses in the 70s and 80s. Cars invented in the 1880s? Also unnecessary.
- the_snooze 4y ago>Internet in the 70s? Totally unnecessary for practical uses in the 70s and 80s. ARPANET was necessary for rapidly exchanging data and compute resources among research labs, which precisely was what it was designed to do. It just happened to find way more uses beyond its initial goals, and evolved into the internet we know today.