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Old Posted Oct 18, 2019, 1:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Quixote View Post
But we gave birth to the Internet
Half true. UCLA was one of the first two nodes, and SRI in Menlo Park (Bay Area) was the other. The relevance isn't the nodes, but the connection between the two, and because that was obviously simultaneous, neither locale has a better claim to being the 'birthplace' of the Internet than the other one does.
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