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To: nickcarraway

I suspect the government has been using DNA for a long time. The military had the internet back in the 50s or 60s.


2 posted on 12/29/2013 2:21:45 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: VerySadAmerican
The military had the internet back in the 50s or 60s.

I am astounded. This means that Al Gore was only about 8 or 10, when he invented the Internet. He must be a brilliant man, and an expert in weather also. He is my hero. SARCASM OFF

4 posted on 12/29/2013 3:00:18 PM PST by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Veteran, 70-71)
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To: VerySadAmerican
I suspect the government has been using DNA for a long time. The military had the internet back in the 50s or 60s.

The idea that the military had deployed anything like "the internet" back in the 50's or sixties is pure hokum. The military was funding some very early research which was being carried out by private and public institutions at the time, but there were no secret military "internet" installations. In 1969, ARPANET allowed researchers in MIT to use a semi-trailer sized computer which cost 100's of thousands or more to talk to a few other similarly situated computers.

One of the first ARPANET transmissions was described like this:

"We set up a telephone connection between us and the guys at SRI...," Kleinrock ... said in an interview: "We typed the L and we asked on the phone,

"Do you see the L?"
"Yes, we see the L," came the response.
"We typed the O, and we asked, "Do you see the O."
"Yes, we see the O."
"Then we typed the G, and the system crashed"...

If anyone is interested here's a short history on the beginnings of the internet. History of the Internet & World Wide Web:

5 posted on 12/29/2013 3:02:09 PM PST by Sparticus (Tar and feathers for the next dumb@ss Republican that uses the word bipartisanship.)
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To: VerySadAmerican
The military had the internet back in the 50s or 60s.

Peddle your BS somewhere else. The first Arpanet message was sent in October, 1969 (and the network crashed after the first two letters of the first word were sent). At that time, the 'internet' consisted of four linked machines.

8 posted on 12/29/2013 3:19:43 PM PST by PAR35
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To: VerySadAmerican

Um did you forget your sarcasm indicator??? You cannot actually believe that the ‘internet’ existed in the 50s


11 posted on 12/29/2013 4:04:36 PM PST by Nifster
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