JERICHO - The internet was NOT designed to survive nuclear war

That's a myth.

cloud dreamer...

So what? If we can't suspend belief for such minor points for the sake
of a entertainment, then I suggest you limit yourself to the biography
and non-fiction section of the library.

videonovels...

Probably a good idea. I DO enjoy Jericho's story, but that comment
"designed by the military to survive nuclear war" stuck out like a pink
bull walking through the middle of the bar. I can't just 'turn off' my
brain.

I wish shows like Jericho would stop spreading it. The internet was

Anim8rFSK...

Because if people realized that nuclear war would get Troy off the net,
they'd be more inclined to want nuclear war.

wdstarr...

"Come on, pleeeze? Just a *small* one?"

designed for the same purpose the telephone was designed. Or the
radio. Purely for communication. When the nukes hit, the internet

Daniel Damouth...

Well, wikipedia says "the later work on Internetting did emphasize
robustness and survivability, including the capability to withstand
losses of large portions of the underlying networks."

will be one of the first things to die.

Daniel Damouth...

Depends on what you mean by "when the nukes hit".

The military relies on dedicated, separate hardlines (not internet) for

Daniel Damouth...

The military also uses the internet.

videonovels...

God help us if your statement is accurate. Those links will be
scrambled & useless when the EM Pulse wipes out the computers &
servers, and we will be left defenseless.

Back in the late 90s, when my company was designing the nest-generation
laucher for the Navy, we proposed using standard ethernet cards to
reduce costs. The Navy went along with the idea, but only if we could
guarantee it would survive a nuclear near-miss of their ships.

We couldn't.

So we went back to the old-fashioned direct hard-wiring used since the
1950s.

-Dan Damouth

its communication.

Jon Purkey...

Which everyone knowns? I don't have a problem when a character says
something that isn't true since people make mistakes. And the internet
would survive a nuclear war myth has been around for a long time.

altec3220...

Of all the things to complain about regarding television and the way it
plays fast and loose with oh-so-many things, was it really necessary to
jump on this one?

seerialmom...

Two things to consider:

1. It was a teenager saying something she thought she heard before; she
didn't need to be "accurate".

2. The Internet "was" originally considered as a possible means of
communication in the event of a nuclear war; history on this site: