http://technology.newscientist.com/article...s-to-watch.htmlFifty years of DARPA: Hits, misses and ones to watch18:00 15 May 2008
NewScientist.com news service
Duncan Graham-Rowe
Successful projects
The internet: Precisely who 'invented' the mass of linked computer networks that is today's internet is a moot point. But it wouldn't have happened without the ARPANET network built by DARPA in the 1960s. The idea was to make a "self-healing" communications network that still worked when parts of it were destroyed. It was the first network to transmit data in discrete chunks, not constant streams, and led to the development of the TCP/IP specification still in use today.
They've got some mega claims to fame, but one or two spectacular failures.
A mechanical elephant. That would have been a sight to behold.
Still, some impressive stuff.
A mechanical elephant. That would have been a sight to behold.
That sounds like a good episode for The Re-Inventors