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Porca miseria, è da anni che comincio i miei corsi Internet così:

The Internet was invented by the United States military in order to create a communications network that could survive a nuclear war.

Sorry, but this just ain’t true. I believed this one myself until I read journalist Katie Hafner’s excellent book, *When Wizards Say Up Late,* chronicling the real history of the Internet. As many suspected, the US military was not capable of conceiving much less inventing an open, interdependent network. Rather, a division of the Pentagon dedicated to research offered grants to a loose consortium of University-based computer scientists who were already developing protocols for processor sharing and information exchange.

This myth came into popularity after a report by the Rand Corporation, a U.S. think tank that often works on military scenarios, was released onto the Internet. The report — written well after the Internet came into existence — did make the observation that a decentralized communications infrastructure could potentially resist conventional attacks. It had nothing to do with the development of the Internet itself.

http://www.rushkoff.com/cgi-bin/columns/display.cgi/breeaking_tech_myths

Ma se non è vero che non è vero?

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