did you know?
Most of you know what a modem is, but did you know that it stands for MOdulator/DEModulator?
The Internet was originally developed to serve the Department of Defense; it was used only for that and for communications between educational institutions. It didn't have any of the fancy pictures and designs that we have now.
The formation of ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, in 1969), the government agency that started the Internet, was part of the U.S. reaction to Russia's launch of Sputnik in 1957.
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