Arpanet: Forskelle mellem versioner

''For each of these three terminals, I had three different sets of user commands. So if I was talking online with someone at S.D.C. and I wanted to talk to someone I knew at Berkeley or M.I.T. about this, I had to get up from the S.D.C. terminal, go over and log into the other terminal and get in touch with them. I said, oh, man, it's obvious what to do: If you have these three terminals, there ought to be one terminal that goes anywhere you want to go where you have interactive computing. That idea is the ARPAnet.[<ref>http://partners.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/12/biztech/articles/122099outlook-bobb.html]</ref>''

Det er et varmt emne blandt [[Internet]]-historikere hvilken motivation det amerikanske forsvarsministerium havde for sin medvirkning i udviklingen af Arpanet. Dog er det flere gange blevet afvist af forskellige af de tidlige pionerer [<ref>http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml#Origins]</ref> indenfor feltet at det skulle have været for at kunne modstå et [[atomvåben]]angreb, men blot have et ønske om at kunne dele ressourcer på tværs af lokaliteter. [[Vint Cerf]] forklarer tillige i et interview fra [[1997]]:

''There is a misunderstanding about the history of the Internet. When the Arpanet, was designed there was an interest in resource sharing. They wanted to connect computers at about 30 different universities around the country that studied computer science and Arpa was funding them. So it had nothing to do with atomic bombs and nuclear war or anything like that.''[<ref>http://www.mediamente.rai.it/mmold/english/bibliote/intervis/c/cerf.htm#link002]</ref>.