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...Vikings drowns out the rest of conversation by repeatedly singing the name of the unpopular processed meat - the first unsolicited messages came over the wires as early as 1864, when telegraph lines were used to send dubious investment offers to wealthy Americans. The first modern spam was sent on ARPANET, the military computer network that preceded the Internet. In 1978, a man named Gary Turk sent an e-mail solicitation to 400 people, advertising his line of new computers. (Turk later said his methods proved so unpopular that it would be more than a decade before anyone would try again...
...dollars will be used.) Not all businesses are excited. Internet providers, in particular, are concerned about losing customers. But Neff argues that even the skeptics will be converted as new opportunities arise, saying that "wireless has the potential to transform the Internet the way the World Wide Web transformed Arpanet." Other major cities seem to agree: Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City are toying with the idea of going wi-fi too. --By William...
Separate from ARPANET, the National Science Foundation (NSF) built NSFNET in 1986, comprised of five supercomputers that served as the Internet's backbone until the Internet was privatized earlier this decade...
According to Crocker, "NSFNET was really just an extension of the ARPANET with a lot of other technology thrown...
Similar to the origins of ARPANET, the NGI will begin with a focus on research universities, national labs and military applications...