A life wasted

[ziggytrix]

You can say I'm nuts, but I think the internet would have come along even without our government's fear of a centralized missle command being taken out by a Soviet nuke.

The banks, or the phone companies, or the universities (and ARPANet was created at universities, even if it was military research) each could have come up with wide area networking, based solely on the need for data communication over distances.