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		mepian on May 26, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DARPA’s silent MHD magnetic drives for replacing n... It's an urban legend. ARPANET was an overgrown university network.

Guthur on May 26, 2023 [–]

And TCP/IP was one of many potential standard protocols

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_Wars

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