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The Internet Didn't Start in Silicon Valley. It Started With Nuclear Fear.

The Internet Didn't Start in Silicon Valley. It Started With Nuclear Fear.

The internet didn't grow out of a startup garage or a university computer lab. It grew out of a very specific kind of dread — the fear that a Soviet nuclear strike could wipe out America's ability to communicate. What the U.S. military built to survive World War III quietly became the infrastructure that now connects eight billion people.