Some Hackers Boldly Plan To Launch Their Own Satellites Into Space To Combat Future Internet Censorships
Vinh Nguyen
Posted on December 31st, 2011
HowStuffWorks pointed out that the Internet became a reality was due to space race. It was the Russians who launched Sputnik into space which prompted the Americans to form Advanced Research Projects Agency in 1958. ARPA was then formed ARPANET. HowStuffWorks claimed without ARPANET, the Internet wouldn’t look and behave as how it’s today. If the facts are true as how HowStuffWorks described in its article How did the Internet start? — we can somewhat come to a conclusion that the Internet was intentionally wired the way it had been wired. This knowledge gives rise to some of us today that we could have also wired the Internet differently if we wanted to, right? Perhaps, we might never know if the wiring of the…
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