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Did you know that the inception of the Internet, one of the most influential technological advancements of the 20th century, was a military project? InternetBirth MilitaryTech ARPANET

It was during the peak of the Cold War, in 1962, to be exact.
The original intent behind it was to create a communication network that could withstand a nuclear strike. The U.S. Defense Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) developed this foundational technology. Its first successful message transmission happened on October 29, 1969, between computers at UCLA and Stanford Research Institute. However, it was only in the 1990s that the Internet, as we know it today, began to take shape. Thanks to this military project, the World Wide Web took birth, changing human life and society in profound and unexpected ways.

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