{"id":10160,"date":"2017-12-27T03:53:56","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T03:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=10160"},"modified":"2018-02-05T06:55:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T06:55:30","slug":"2018-01-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2018-01-14\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Biggest Military-Industrial-Congressional Fraud of the 20th Century Launched the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Lester Earnest<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>January 14, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Internet is a result of the following five main developments:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 First Computer Network: SAGE air defense system, Initiated by MIT in the early 1950s, built by many contractors and operational 1958-1982.<br \/>\n\u00b7 General Purpose Interactive Computing: timesharing systems, developed at MIT, beginning operating in 1962 and went commercial in 1965.<br \/>\n\u00b7 General Purpose Computer Networking, initiated by people from MIT and funded by the Defense Department\u2019s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), resulting in the ARPANET, which largely interconnected academic institutions.<br \/>\n\u00b7 Network Interconnections: Internet Protocols developed at Stanford University, released in 1974 and eventually adopted widely, forming the Internet. Also called TCP\/IP.<br \/>\n\u00b7 Standardized Graphical Terminal Interface: World-Wide-Web, started at CERN in Switzerland in 1990, came into widespread use by 2000 and now is maintained at MIT.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, MIT played a major part in creating the Internet. By chance, Lester Earnest contributed to each of the above developments, and is evidently the only person in the world who did that.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/254166472\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/254166472\">Humanist Community Forum (2018-01-14): How a Fraud Launched the Internet &#8211; Lester Earnest<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/hcsv\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nRSVP on Meetup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/humanistcommunity\/events\/246227416\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/humanistcommsv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HumanistCommSV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nSee videos of our past Forums <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lester Earnest January 14, 2018 The Internet is a result of the following five main developments: \u00b7 First Computer Network: SAGE air defense system, Initiated by MIT in the early 1950s, built by many contractors and operational 1958-1982. \u00b7 General Purpose Interactive Computing: timesharing systems, developed at MIT, beginning operating in 1962 and went commercial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2018-01-14\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How the Biggest Military-Industrial-Congressional Fraud of the 20th Century Launched the Internet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[243,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10160"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10213,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10160\/revisions\/10213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}