>A bit of irony is that the internet was first designed as a concept for a network that might survive a nuclear attack. When will this myth die? The Internet w

>A bit of irony is that the internet was first designed as a concept for a network that might survive a nuclear attack. When will this myth die? The Internet was designed as an academic computer network. DARPA provided funding and, yes, very early packet switch-network research was inspired by the desire to maintain communications in wartime, but the first four network nodes were Utah, USC, Stanford, and UCSB. Not NSA, CIA, Pentagon, and USNO.