D B Davis
2018-12-13 15:53:54 UTC
RAND's preface, dated 1964, shows clear intention to build a wide area
data network that can survive a nuclear war:
An electrical engineer by training, Paul Baran worked for Hughes
Aircraft Company's systems group before joining RAND in 1959.
While working at RAND on a scheme for U.S. telecommunications
infrastructure to survive a "first strike," Baran conceived of
the Internet and digital packet switching, the Internet's
underlying data communications technology. His concepts are
still employed today; just the terms are different. His seminal
work first appeared in a series of RAND studies published between
1960 and 1962 and then finally in the tome "On Distributed
Communications," published in 1964.
https://web.archive.org/web/20101228070851/http://www.rand.org:80/about/history/baran-list.html
NSFNET's Final Report, dated a couple of decades later, clearly
indicates that ARPANET was designed to withstand nuclear attack.
These WANs were primarily Federal research projects, the first
of which was the ARPANET in 1969. An outgrowth of the Department
of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency, the ARPANET's
packet-switching scheme was meant to provide reliable
communications in the face of nuclear attack.
https://web.archive.org/web/20091104065325/https://www.merit.edu/documents/pdf/nsfnet/nsfnet_report.pdf
Eugene Miya (a student at one of the early ARPA sites) mentions nuclear
war suvivability in an October 16, 1990 usenet post to comp.misc and
alt.folklore.computers entitled "Re: Internet: The Origins."
“Why? Lots of reasons: intellectual curiosity, the need to
have different machines communicate, study fault tolerance
of communications systems in the event of nuclear war, share
and connect expensive resources, very soft ideas to very hard
ideas....”
http://www.ais.org/~jrh/acn/text/Back_Issues[1993-1997]/ACN5-3.txt
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Thank you,
data network that can survive a nuclear war:
An electrical engineer by training, Paul Baran worked for Hughes
Aircraft Company's systems group before joining RAND in 1959.
While working at RAND on a scheme for U.S. telecommunications
infrastructure to survive a "first strike," Baran conceived of
the Internet and digital packet switching, the Internet's
underlying data communications technology. His concepts are
still employed today; just the terms are different. His seminal
work first appeared in a series of RAND studies published between
1960 and 1962 and then finally in the tome "On Distributed
Communications," published in 1964.
https://web.archive.org/web/20101228070851/http://www.rand.org:80/about/history/baran-list.html
NSFNET's Final Report, dated a couple of decades later, clearly
indicates that ARPANET was designed to withstand nuclear attack.
These WANs were primarily Federal research projects, the first
of which was the ARPANET in 1969. An outgrowth of the Department
of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency, the ARPANET's
packet-switching scheme was meant to provide reliable
communications in the face of nuclear attack.
https://web.archive.org/web/20091104065325/https://www.merit.edu/documents/pdf/nsfnet/nsfnet_report.pdf
Eugene Miya (a student at one of the early ARPA sites) mentions nuclear
war suvivability in an October 16, 1990 usenet post to comp.misc and
alt.folklore.computers entitled "Re: Internet: The Origins."
“Why? Lots of reasons: intellectual curiosity, the need to
have different machines communicate, study fault tolerance
of communications systems in the event of nuclear war, share
and connect expensive resources, very soft ideas to very hard
ideas....”
http://www.ais.org/~jrh/acn/text/Back_Issues[1993-1997]/ACN5-3.txt
✍☮
Thank you,
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Don
Don