However , a DARPA project to create bomb - proof computer networks led to the creation of the Internet , a network of networks .
Initially , computers depended on the telephone networks to link to each other , spawning the Bulletin Board sub-culture .
A DARPA project to create bomb - proof computer networks led to the creation of the Internet , a network of networks .
Initially , computers depended on the telephone networks to link to each other , spawning the Bulletin Board sub-culture .