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Cats, Memes and Porn - The History of the Internet (4x10)

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t’s hard to imagine what our world would be like today without the invention of the internet. What it means to our society can be answered in many ways. Based on a project of internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, the roots of our internet today are strongly grounded in the need for stable and secure means of communication during the Cold War. Not lastly thanks to the US, who worried that their centralized channels of communication and information could be destroyed by attacking enemies, established the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), focussing on developing alternative information networks. A system would soon be born under the watch of Joseph Licklider, that would be able to connect the world. Check out this episode where Brett takes a look at how the internet became the ever present cultural phenomenon that it is today.