Monday, January 05, 2009
50 years of world's first computer network !
SAGE Semi Automatic Ground Environment.
Deployed first in 1959. It costed (year 1959) 8 Billion dollars
Why Semi Automatic? Because no one could afford that some computer bug trigger nuclear war in the peak of cold war. Actually some moth. :)
"People need to see this and know what was going on right in their own back yards during that time," Zimet says. "At any given moment we could find ourselves back in that situation again."
Deployed first in 1959. It costed (year 1959) 8 Billion dollars
Why Semi Automatic? Because no one could afford that some computer bug trigger nuclear war in the peak of cold war. Actually some moth. :)
"People need to see this and know what was going on right in their own back yards during that time," Zimet says. "At any given moment we could find ourselves back in that situation again."