The goal was to use low-cost commercial radio equipment to connect users on Oahu and the other Hawaiian islands with a central time-sharing computer on the main

The goal was to use low-cost commercial radio equipment to connect users on Oahu and the other Hawaiian islands with a central time-sharing computer on the main Oahu campus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALOHAnet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALOHAnet It worked out pretty well, 3G mobile phones use a variant of the communication protocol.