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>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
by the_snooze 5y 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.