Has anyone heard of this before? I learned about it a little while back and I truly find it fascinating.
Basically, the internet started as a way for universities to share information...now today its so bogged down with spam and youtube traffic that its original purpose was lost...Enter Internet2. It is a separate backbone for universities to communicate together. Go to a research university? You probably are on internet2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet2
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My school is there. Woot woot.
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Yeah! -
Actually, the forebear of the internet was ARPANet, which was developed under the aegis of, and with money from, the Department of Defense - it certainly included Universities, however, because that's where a lot of the defense research went on.
It wasn't something quite so idealistic and rosy as the OP's post seems to imply (although, then again, I'm thorough-going cynic, so perhaps I over-read it).
Internet2
Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by nizzy1115, Aug 31, 2008.