Silicon Folklore – The History of the Narrative History of the Internet: “You’ve probably heard the story of how the Internet was designed to withstand a nuclear attack. It usually goes “DARPA was doing cold war planning and was eager for a distributed resilient command-and-control”… actually let’s hear Professor Rob Larson, author of Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley, give it on Oct 18, 2022: Is any of this true? Apparently, the Internet is from “back in the 1980s”, was called DARPAnet and was built to defend against a nuclear attack. Is that true? Let’s find out.This is the story of the various histories of the Internet, where they came from and which ones are real.”