Apparently the idea was, that if we all blew ourselves to kingdom come, the telephone system is/was (not sure which now) would be destroyed after all those lovely picturesque mushroom clouds had finished lighting up everywhere, so the powers that be wanted some sort of network to survive all that and apparently that's how Package Switching came about, which in turn lead to the development of the Internet we have today - whereby the world's information is accessable to anyone all over the world.
The theory being, that if somewhere got wiped out - the world's information would still be safe and accessible from somewhere - as far as I understand it?
Ok?
Right my questions is this:-
I thought that nuclear weapons produced EMP (eletro-magnetic pulse - for the uninitated), which I always thought didn't do computers & especially silicon chips much good - so, how after EMP, would the internet survive anyway!
Would someone be kind enough to explain this to me please?
2007-03-21
03:34:28
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