ARPNET/Internet

[pynchonoid]

[...] Perhaps one of the greatest inventions of our
time is the Internet. Without a doubt, the net has had
a profound effect on almost every aspect of our lives.
The formation of the Internet has changed the way we
do business, communicate, entertain, retrieve
information, and even educate ourselves. Nevertheless,
the Internet might not have ever materialized if it
had not been for some innovative thinkers from the
Advanced Research Projects Agency, who created
"ARPANET." In collaboration with several educational
and research institutions, the agency created the
packet-switching technologies that form the basis of
the Internet today.

The History and Development of the Internet: a
Timeline, illustrates a chronology of notable events
that led to the Internet’s creation and concludes with
the thirtieth anniversary of the ARPANET experiment.
[...] 

continues:
<http://www.sat.lib.tx.us/Displays/itintro.htm>

We must not be too distracted by the clunkiness of the
means of surveillance current in Winston Smith's era.
In "our" 1984, after all, the integrated circuit chip
was less than a decade old, and almost embarrassingly
primitive next to the wonders of computer technology
circa 2003, most notably the internet, a development
that promises social control on a scale those quaint
old 20th-century tyrants with their goofy moustaches
could only dream about.
-Thomas Pynchon, Foreword to _1984_

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