Using ARPANET was like being given a telephone and unlimited credit only to find out that the only users we can call don’t speak our language.
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The idea of flexibility is an important building block of the Internet we use today. It has also made it a much more difficult environment to control.
Having begun as a military answer to a Cold War threat (the Sputnik), the ARPANET turned into a completely different kind of network.
On October 29, 1969, an experiment at UCLA sparked a communication revolution, the implications of which are still unfolding nearly five decades later.
