Privatizing the Internet Was a Mistake w/ Ben Tarnoff
Tech Won't Save Us
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How Do You Define the Internet?
The internet is fundamentally a language that enables computer networks of different kinds to interconnect and to form a network of networks. Originally, when it was first invented in the mid 19 seventies, it was a single proto call. Protocol is simply a set of rules for how different computers,. in this case, different computer networks, should communicate. So there was a military pretext to this. And specifically, we want to be able to stitch different networks together into a network of Networks so that a sole der deployed in a theater of war could access a main frame running a program somewhere back in the united states.
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