How the internet got started

        Some thirty years ago , the Rand corporation , America's formost cold war think tank, faced a strange straegic problem. How could the US authrieties succesfully communicate after a nuclear war?         Postnuclear America would need a comand-and-control network, linked from city to city , state to state, base to base . But no matter how throughly that network was armored or protected , its switches and wiring would always be vulnerable to the impact of atomic bombs. A nuclear attack …showed first 75 words of 882 total…

…showed last 75 words of 882 total…the "snailmail"File transfers allow Internet users to access remote machines and retrieve programs or text. Many internet computers allow any person to acess them anonymously to simply copy their public files,free of charge. Entire books can be transferred through direct access in a matter of minutes.         Finding a link to the Internet will become easier and cheaper. At the turn of the century,Network literacy will be forcing itself into every individuals life.