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Strypey @[email protected] · 2025-10-22 · 02:36 UTC

"There were only two people involved in the decision to launch the ARPAnet: my boss, the Director of ARPA Charles Herzfeld, and me. The creation of the ARPAnet was not motivated by considerations of war. The ARPAnet was created to enable folks with common interests to connect with one another through interactive computing even when widely separated by geography.”

#BobTaylor, Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO), #DARPA

https://internetmythen.de/en/index0258.html?mythen=myth-15-the-internet-was-invented-by-the-pentagon-and-designed-to-survive-a-nuclear-attack

#HatTip to @nethope for the debunk link

#bobtaylor #darpa #hattip

Strypey @[email protected] · 2025-10-22 · 02:36 UTC

"There were only two people involved in the decision to launch the ARPAnet: my boss, the Director of ARPA Charles Herzfeld, and me. The creation of the ARPAnet was not motivated by considerations of war. The ARPAnet was created to enable folks with common interests to connect with one another through interactive computing even when widely separated by geography.”

#BobTaylor, Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO), #DARPA

https://internetmythen.de/en/index0258.html?mythen=myth-15-the-internet-was-invented-by-the-pentagon-and-designed-to-survive-a-nuclear-attack

#HatTip to @nethope for the debunk link

#bobtaylor #darpa #hattip

𝕎𝕖𝕣𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕞 @[email protected] · 2022-11-21 · 15:22 UTC

Dear Critics of "Big Government"

#ARPANET was initially funded by
Advanced Research Projects Agency
of US Dept of Defense

1st permanent #ARPANET link
was established on 21 Nov 1969
between the IMP at #UCLA
and the IMP at #SRPPaloAlto.
The initial four-node network
was in place by 5 Dec 1969.

1st (test) message ever sent
via ARPANET
29 Oct 1969 10:30 pm PST
#BobTaylor
#BillDuvall
#CharleyKline

#arpanet #ucla #srppaloalto #bobtaylor #billduvall #charleykline