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Talk:American History Lecture Twelve (view source)
Revision as of 16:08, December 3, 2008
, 16:08, December 3, 2008→Other Space Race Notes
: Corrected again, though I disagree with your analysis. The Soviets could have gotten to the Moon, but decided against it. We went on a fool's errand there. Liberals supported it simply because they liked Kennedy, who proposed it.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 11:05, 3 December 2008 (EST)
: Corrected again, though I disagree with your analysis. The Soviets could have gotten to the Moon, but decided against it. We went on a fool's errand there. Liberals supported it simply because they liked Kennedy, who proposed it.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 11:05, 3 December 2008 (EST)
==ARPANET==
Cold War military thinking also gave us one of the greatest innovations from the 1960's. The Defense Department created the concept of the ARPAnet (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) in the late 1960's as a way of enabling electronic communications even if parts of the national telecommunications network were disabled or destroyed. The ARPAnet concepts were refined in the 1970's to create the framework of today's Internet. --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 11:08, 3 December 2008 (EST)