No it wasn't; that's just an urban legend. The ARPAnet was a way of allowing researchers to share resources. Thus, a user in San Francisco could use a computer in Los Angeles, and wouldn't even need a new, dedicated terminal to do it. Its resilience has more to do with the poor state of telecommunications at the time demanding it, and certain design features that allowed for a useful combination of efficiency and flexibility.

As for why it was funded by DARPA, that was where there was money.

FTFY

A brand new "SPARC Inside" sticker.

Some drunk driving a motorboat with the anchor dragging above the ocean floor will latch on to above ocean floor tunnel, causing a massive leak and/or damaging the boat. This is why it's better to build the tunnel in bedrock.

My 2006 Black MacBook ran for eight years until the CPU fan gave out. I didn't bother to get it repaired at the Apple Store. Although Snow Leopard OS X ran perfectly fan, updates to existing software no longer supported the 32-bit CPU. Better to save up for new hardware to run the latest and greatest.

A Yellowstone supereruption would wipe out two-thirds of the northern hemisphere. If that have gone off, ashy rain would be the least of our problems.

I'm American. My French isn't that great. :P

I thought that was moonshine liberating me.

After a 30 year celebration on Endor to celebrate the end of the Empire, Han Solo got stuck with the beer bill for all those drunken Ewoks.

That's no moon. It's some kid's damn RC toy.

Dear Santa,

We need someone who has five years of experience in a new technology that came out six months ago. We can only pay in milk and cookies. Please send ASAP!

Love,

HR Dept.

I've been hearing that for decades as a construction worker, warehouse worker, spaghetti cook, virtual world tester, video game tester, help desk/desktop support technician, data center technician, PC refresh technician, and, currently, security remediation technician. None of my jobs were ever replaced by automation.

Does machine learning overcome the HR requirement to have five years of experience in a technology that just came out six months ago?

Taxes are at an 80 year low. No need to surrender the honey jar as well.

"Changes?! We don't need no stinkin' changes!"