https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc5v0ZLwqPY

  • Whorish_Ooze [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    DISCOVERY OF THE INTERNET?!?!?!?

    not INVENTION?

    DId someone just find a bunch of tubes out there and go "OMG, there it is, the fabled lost Internet"

    • Claus [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      If they say the US discovered the internet, they don't have to credit countries like the USSR for helping to create it

      • Whorish_Ooze [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        Ehhh, I think its pretty safe to say "The Internet" was mostly a US invention. ARPANET and NSFNET came from Americ.a. I guess some of the packet switching tecgnology was invented in the UK, but TCP/IP and OSI were boh first created in the US

        • Claus [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          My understanding was that there were several attempts to develop what would later become the internet we understand today. I know the US really took off with it, but I think the USSR deserves some credit.

          In USSR, the first computer networks appeared in the 1950s in missile defense system at Sary Shagan. In the 1960s, the massive computer network project called OGAS was proposed but failed to be implemented. Apollo–Soyuz USA–USSR joint space program (1972–1975) used digital data for spaceships transmitted between two countries. Since the late 1970s, X.25 Soviet networks began to appear and Academset emerged in Leningrad in 1978.

          From Wikipedia

          • JuneFall [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            Arpanet was beginning to be constructed only after the Soviet network models were known to the actors involved in creating ARPANET. Though the idea to connect things via metal wasn't new, the idea to have controllers and nodes wasn't new, either. Still were good ideas and natural results from the material conditions and problems arising from those systems.

    • fuckwit [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Maybe politics isn’t just theater and they’re all actually trying really hard?