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- Title
Frühe Netzdemokratie? Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Nutzer-Partizipation im Arpanet.
- Authors
WALACH, THOMAS
- Abstract
The Arpanet, a mainframe computer network of only a few research institutions in the U.S., was an important predecessor to the Internet. Many of the defining structural and technical features of the Internet were first tested and established in the Arpanet. As a result of its decentralized and consensual organization, the Arpanet depended on user participation. But the history of the Arpanet also shows how controversial the aspiration for radical cooperation in the net was from its very beginnings. An analysis of sources from the Arpanet’s early years shows how far the creative freedom of the network’s users reached—and where it ended.
- Subjects
ARPANET (Computer network); HISTORY of the Internet; INTERNET users; DECENTRALIZATION in management; DIGITAL technology
- Publication
Technikgeschichte, 2019, Vol 86, Issue 2, p131
- ISSN
0040-117X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5771/0040-117x-2019-2-131