No, ARPA net (spelling?) was created so that communications could withstand a nuclear attack. The design was intentionally made so that if one part was taken out, other parts would fill in, i.e., it had great redundancy. Thus, the WEB was created.
After the DOD made this ARPA thingy, universities were linked for communication and data sharing in research. But the initial impetus for the internet was war. Nuclear war.
Something else that's sort of cool: the original initiative for ARPA began as a bill in congress that established funding for the project. A young, unknown congressman who specialized in defense and environmental issues sponsored the bill. His name was Al Gore. He was the main person responsible for establishing the initiative and funding, and without Gore the internet would not have been created at the time it was. I don't know why he felt the need to embellish his role by saying he "invented" the internet, since he clearly was responsible for getting the internet started in the early 80s. Too bad he said that, because I really believe it costed him the election. Most people didn't know the role Gore actually did play in creating the internet, and the media was no help whatsoever, they never said ANYTHING about Gore's ARPA bill...but lots of people were turned off by the "invention" gaff, understandably so, and the media just dug in and let the right wingers lay Gore over a barrel. Sad.
i'm not sure of this, but i remember "learning" in school that the DoD started the internet (ARPA) in 1969. That year stuck out in my mind. It wasn't the web, more like bbs and sh!t, to avoid nukes, yeah. I'm almost certain it was 69 <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" /> . perhaps my mind was wondering in class tho.
as for the future, i don't think computers will, in our lifetime, be able to come close to mimicking the full range of human thought. They may be made to mirror what we do, but i don't think ai is that good.
The internet was created closer to the 1980s...</strong><hr></blockquote>
Actually, the "internet" was created around the late 60s, though it was known as ARPAnet back then. The "world wide web" (eg: HTTP), was created in 1991. You can read Tim Berners-Lee's original announcement of the World Wide Web project <a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=6487@cernvax.cern.ch" target="_blank">here</a>.
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After the DOD made this ARPA thingy, universities were linked for communication and data sharing in research. But the initial impetus for the internet was war. Nuclear war.
Something else that's sort of cool: the original initiative for ARPA began as a bill in congress that established funding for the project. A young, unknown congressman who specialized in defense and environmental issues sponsored the bill. His name was Al Gore.
as for the future, i don't think computers will, in our lifetime, be able to come close to mimicking the full range of human thought. They may be made to mirror what we do, but i don't think ai is that good.
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The internet was created closer to the 1980s...</strong><hr></blockquote>
Actually, the "internet" was created around the late 60s, though it was known as ARPAnet back then. The "world wide web" (eg: HTTP), was created in 1991. You can read Tim Berners-Lee's original announcement of the World Wide Web project <a href="http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=6487@cernvax.cern.ch" target="_blank">here</a>.