166. Slumlords of the Internet (ft. Ben Tarnoff)
This Machine Kills
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How Does the Internet Really Work?
The internet is such a big part of our popular discourse, but we kind of assume that everybody already knows what the internet is already. So to try to answer that question, i had to go back to the point of origin, when the intrenet was invented. And i think it's fair to say that the pre history begins actually with the launch of sputnick in 19 57. This is a moment that signals the soviet spremacy the space race. It triggers this full scale panic attack in the american ruling class. The creation of arpinet enables dar a and its web network, we could say, of contractors, to do is to share computing resources
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