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You need both efficiency and effectiveness of course.

The internet - at least the TCP/IP stack - was conceived as a way to have graceful routing around dead nodes in a web topology network.

It was a giant leap forward in terms of pushing bits down a wire in a way that lets the bits find their own way home.

It’s also why piracy and undesirable stuff is hard to shut down.

The NSF was also involved, but it was funded by the DoD as a way to have robust data transfer.

This is the technical backbone of the internet, but the interesting stuff was really started when we connected universities to it.

[QUOTE="marduk, post: 268382, member: 989"] You need both efficiency and effectiveness of course. The internet - at least the TCP/IP stack - was conceived as a way to have graceful routing around dead nodes in a web topology network. It was a giant leap forward in terms of pushing bits down a wire in a way that lets the bits find their own way home. It’s also why piracy and undesirable stuff is hard to shut down. The NSF was also involved, but it was funded by the DoD as a way to have robust data transfer. This is the technical backbone of the internet, but the interesting stuff was really started when we connected universities to it. [/QUOTE]

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