How did the Internet first begin? Why was it developed at the Advanced Research Projects Agency? Where was it initially launched at the end of the 1960s? Is it pronounced r-OO-ter or r-OW-ter?? These and other hard-hitting questions are answered as Jared & Ayush take a deep dive into the birth of humanity’s global computer network…with a dash of 90s nostalgia thrown in for good measure.Hosted by Jared White & Ayush and produced by Intuitive FutureLinks & Show Notes:Follow Just a Spec on MastodonThe Spicy Web & That HTML BlogEpisode 15: The Plumbing That Makes the Web MovePacket switching (Wikipedia)The first Internet connection, with UCLA's Leonard Kleinrock (YouTube)How the Internet Was Invented: Part 1 (YouTube)How the Internet Came to Be | Part 2 (YouTube)Did the U.S. Government Invent the Internet? | History (YouTube)How the Internet was born: The network begins to take shape (The Conversation)The Internet Review (born in 1996, reborn in 2024)1989 Networking Poems!