This is Arpanet . The internet before Google . Before Flickr , before YouTube , before Chat Roulette , before BitTorrent . Before pictures of your ex - lady friend on Facebook . An cyberspace that you could draw a map of with only a few lines and some dots . 1972 .
At this dot , the cyberspace was n’t even the net — still dubbed ARPANET , the Pentagon ( and a fistful of universities ’ ) private plaything . As you could see , it was n’t exactly … extensive . The net served only to link primal research centers . It ’s pretty awesome to think that this handful of cables turned into the outlandish , twisted , fabulously complex nebula of porn , parody , noesis hatred , delight , and cat TV we now adore . [ Life ]
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