• Blue_Morpho
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    8 hours ago

    information-sharing between geographically dispersed research facilities

    Research facilities doing DOD research.

    I’m not sure why it would matter that you worked for them in the early 90s.

    The president of the company got Vint and Bob on board because he was their military liason at Darpa.

    The project I worked on was partially funded by Darpa. We reported weekly updates to a Lt Colonel.

    The Internet was originally by the military and for the military and only later handed off to universities.

    • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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      7 minutes ago

      Yes, I will just take your word for it over the word of the original people involved.

      You keep talking about DARPA, when they’re not the same organization that backed ARPANET. Arpanet came before laws were passed saying DARPA could only fund projects directly related to defense.