Early Computer networks ARPAnet advanced projects agency network US department of defense military decentralized general research academic community government programs The PC comes in the 1970s as both a consumptive technology and also as something used in the workplace The rise of the Internet The rise of the PC in the 1970s and the rise of the Internet follow slightly different paths So the internet was originally started by an agency of the government US Department of Defense called ARPAnet originally called DARPAnet Darpa defense industry a system of defense contractors that develop all kinds of new technologies that the department of defense uses ARPAnet was started by DARPA It was funded by the US Department of Defense Why would it want to have a nationwide network What is going on the 1960s Nuclear War The primary purpose of ARPAnet which was the original internet was to connect to create a nationwide instantaneous network to control nuclear weapons in the case of a nuclear war It was a decentralized network of communications
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