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The future routes around damage

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Sep 29, 2021
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One of the primary mandates given to the creators of the original Internet, known then as the ARPANET, was the ability to route around damage. In the 1960s this meant the ability to route around a city that had been obliterated by nuclear weapons. How could you send a message to San Francisco if Chicago was a crater? You routed around the hole through o…

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