The USSR's launch of Sputnik spurred the United States to create the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA or DARPA) in February 1958 to regain a technological lead. ARPA created the Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) to further the research of the Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) program, which had networked country-wide radar systems together for the first time. The IPTO's purpose was to find ways to address the US military's concern about survivability of their communications networks, and as a first step interconnect their computers at the Pentagon, Cheyenne Mountain, and Strategic Air Command headquarters (SAC). J. C. R. Licklider, a promoter of universal networking, was selected to head the IPTO....

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Week Without Walls

Recently I’ve gone on a field trip which is held by my school. It’s theme is called “World Without Walls” or WWW for short. I went on the WWW on February 8th this year. For the field trip, I went to Jakarta and Bandung. First we went to Jakarta with Garuda airlines. There we visited the ACS (air catering service) of Garuda Indonesia and the Garuda Training Center. In the Garuda ACS center, they told us how they make the food that we usually eat on flights. There are lots and lots of big refrigerators and a big room sized freezer that is very-very cold. We went in, but only some of us went out. No no no just kidding. We all came back out safely. In the Garuda training Center, we were showed of how flight attendants were trained and how to escape during an emergency landing. After that, we...

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Biodata - William W

Hello everyone! My name is William W and I'm a student at Cita Hati Senior High school. Now I'm sitting on the 10th grade and I'm doing this blog for my computer lesson. I'm only 15 now and I live in Surabaya, Indonesia. I have 2 siblings, both younger than me. The first one is Winny and she's 14, the second one is Wallace which is only 5 now. My mother is Jinny and my father's name is Khrist. I have a girlfriend, Laurentia :). I usually am called "Wonka" (which is really annoying) because of my 5th grade teacher who's crazy. Well that's all about me...

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Biodata - William W

Hello everyone! My name is William W and I'm a student at Cita Hati Senior High school. Now I'm sitting on the 10th grade and I'm doing this blog for my computer lesson. I'm only 15 now and I live in Surabaya, Indonesia. I have 2 siblings, both younger than me. The first one is Winny and she's 14, the second one is Wallace which is only 5 now. My mother is Jinny and my father's name is Khrist. I have a girlfriend, Laurentia :). I usually am called "Wonka" (which is really annoying) because of my 5th grade teacher who's crazy. Well that's all about me...

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