OOM: And who, exactly, do you think could claim being the predecessor, or inventor, of the internet? Specifically. What I wrote above is entirely factual and correct.
Btw, ArpaNet was build for LD communications and was in fact designed to withstand a nuclear attack.
TCP/IP — the technology the internet is based on — came about with the NSFNet (that I referenced above) in the ’80’s, which interconnected to the ARPANet, thus making the Internet.