If The Cold War Didn't End Would The General Public Have Internet Access?

@elmiko (6630)
United States
December 8, 2008 4:43am CST
I was just thinking about this recently that after the Berlin Wall fell and Russia stopped being Communist that the internet was availible to the public the next year. I think the internet was first accessible to the public in 1990. The internet however originally came from the Military. Would of the Military released the internet to the public if the Cold War had not ended? After all the internet had to be somewhat a valuable tool for the military. It was first invented in the Military back in the late 60s. Actually I looked it up and they started offering the internet to the general public back in 1992 but i've heard it was around to some of the general public back in 1990. Anyway the internet as we know it started between the U.S. and the Soviet Union because of the Space Race back in 1957 when the Soviet Union launced the first satellite called Sputnik 1. So this is how the internet basicly evolved over time.
2 responses
• India
8 Dec 08
not really i mean if they hadnt discovered it it wouldv'e been by someone else and the nuclear weapons is the bgger reason tht we have the facilty of the internet the cold war was just a big fake thing happy lotting n have a nice day
@elmiko (6630)
• United States
9 Dec 08
I would have to agree with you on the cold war being fake as there was no action of any sort.
6 Mar 09
The fact that there was no action is WHY it was called the cold war.
@Lakota12 (42600)
• United States
8 Dec 08
never thought about it for back then I wasnt interested in computers. But I did know that comuters were used back then for military purposses.
@elmiko (6630)
• United States
9 Dec 08
Thanks for the response.