[walter_bishop]

"The distributed network was originally designed to nudge the US ahead of the Soviets, allowing scientists’ and government leaders’ computers to communicate even in the event of a nuclear attack. "

https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-soviets-invented-the-internet...

No no no, the Arpanet was never designed to survive a nuclear war, the originators are even quoted as saying so.

footnotes 5: http://www.internetsociety.org/internet/what-internet/histor...