Jul 28, 2019
Often times people assume the US is the homeland of the internet. Funded by the US Department of Defence, the first attempts at a large-scale network were started during the height of the Cold War, and a large part of it's design was redundancy and robust-ness. Some of the researchers were quite frank about it's purpose: to create a network that could survive an upcoming nuclear war. This military-hardened infrastructure was known as ARPANET.
But that's only part of the story,
and the US wasn't the first to the party. The fact is, the
internet was
born during the Cold War. This was
an era that saw huge advancements in science, both for better and
for worse. The space race put humans on the moon, and the nuclear
arms race put humans dangerously close to annihilation. So it
should be no surprise that America's counterpart in this age, the
Soviet Union, was working towards their own
proto-internet.
