From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Tue May 07 2002 - 04:00:50 MDT
It appears as if Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com> wrote:
|
|On Tuesday, May 7, 2002, at 12:27 am, Samantha Atkins wrote:
|> Really? I don't remember it being all-military use. Many universities
|> had stuff on it and the access wasn't that well controlled at all.
|
|This is true. If you weren't working on a military project, you
|probably didn't see any military stuff. However, Arpanet/Darpanet was
|funded by the military. They didn't let sites on unless they had a
|reason to connect to that site. Somebody at your university made it
|worthwhile for the military to connect to that site.
ARPANET was interconnected to the TYMNET.
TYMNET could be accessed via X.25 from just about everywhere.
A number of hackers used X.25 PADs to access ARPANET that way from Sweden.
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