The Internet timeline begins with Sputnik
This article, “Creativity and the Sputnik shock,” is an in-depth look at the culture of the late 50s and the 60s. It talks a lot about creativity and innovation, as well as science and education — all relevent to our understanding of the beginnings of the Internet, I believe. As the article says, “it tells us a lot about the cultural atmosphere of the 1960s, a time when the Cold War both hastened innovation and threatened annihilation.”
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