Labels:book | box | comic book | daily | person | poster | shelf | sky | windowpane OCR: 108 CHAPTER COMPUTERS IN CONTEXT Military IN ENGINES THE MIND Joel Shurkin could continue operating without centralized com- writes, "if necessity the mother of invention, then puter. The result was ARPANET, which paved the war can be said to be its grandmother. The military, way for the data communications system we know an early pioneer in computer and communication 1967 today as but the the .mil Internet. domain that ARPANET designates was activated U.S mili- in technologies, continues to be the driving force tary Web sites was not implemented until 1984 behind technologies that have revolutionized every- day life. During World War II the U.S. military The U.S Department of Defense (DoD) currently initiated classified research program, called Project maintains several data communica tio ...
