J. Kenneth Stewart III
Benn Ray
Ideas in Writing
11/17/05
Controlling The Internet
The origins of the Internet began with Paul Baran of the RAND Corporation, which was commissioned by the U.S. Air Force to do a study on how it could maintain its command and control over its missiles and bombers after a nuclear attack. It was to be a military research network that could survive a nuclear strike, decentralized so that if any location in America were attacked, the military could still have control over their nuclear arms for a counter attack (Castells).
The Internet of present day is far more diversified in the way it is used then it was when it was originally invented. The Internet of today is the largest internet in the world. It is a three level hierarchy composed of backbone networks, mid-level networks, and stub networks. These networks include commercial (.com or .co), university (.ac or .edu) and other research (.org, .net) and military (.mil) networks which......
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