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This network research became known as ARPANET. By 1969, the first computer on the network was established at UCLA...
Crocker was part of a group that determined what protocols--the network language--ARPANET would use and to what extent...
...understand how techies can become fans of a Luddite, one needs to look at the generational difference in attitudes toward technology. The Unabomber suspect went into isolation around the time computers still represented Big Brother. He never saw the comeuppance of IBM and the liberation of the Arpanet, the computer network built for the military-industrial complex. Arpanet mutated into the people's network, the Internet, something so decentralized and anarchic it appears to be torn from the very pages of the manifesto. "It's too bad that Ted Kaczynski, assuming he's the One, was not into...
...people who have spent a few years (or in some cases a few decades) in cyberspace and know whereof they speak. One of them is Clifford Stoll-a gangly, wild-haired astronomer who got his first modem in 1971 and jacked it into the Internet's precursor, the Arpanet. His 1989 book The Cuckoo's Egg, which told how he used the Net to trap some German hacker spies, was the first Internet-related best seller. How does he feel now about the place he helped popularize...
...since Levy's book, a fourth generation of revolutionaries has come to power. Still abiding by the Hacker Ethic, these tens of thousands of netheads have created myriad computer bulletin boards and a nonhierarchical linking system called Usenet. At the same time, they have transformed the Defense Department-sponsored ARPAnet into what has become the global digital epidemic known as the Internet. The average age of today's Internet users, who number in the tens of millions, is about 30 years. Just as personal computers transformed the '80s, this latest generation knows that the Net is going to transform...