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 An Internet Pioneer Ponders the Next Revolution<!-- Bot genereret titel -->]</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 Internet Society (ISOC) All About The Internet: History of the Internet<!-- Bot genereret titel -->]</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]]: