Famously, we trace the Internet to ARPANET, a research network built for the US defense agency DARPA. But in the 1960s and 70s, ARPANET was just one of several computer networks operating around the world. And while it had users and cool technical innovations, it was a research tool. And it wasn’t growing particularly fast. How did that turn into the capital-I Internet? We can blame - in part - Japanese supercomputers. In today’s video, we explore the Japanese peril that brought us the Internet.
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