At first, DARPA’s network was simply a testbed to prove that computers could be linked together. Since it was seen as an unreliable experiment, universities and laboratories used it, and mainstream military people ignored it. After eight years, only a few hundred computers connected into the Arpanet, but gradually, others were attracted by the network’s reliability and simplicity. By 1985 the network directory listed tens of thousands of computers; today, there must be over one hundred thousand.
Over 100,000!!! Wow, so many!
