Logistics of the Internet: How WWII Supply Chains Wired the Digital Future
Before data zipped through fiber, crates and fuel cans crawled across oceans. If you’ve ever wondered why the internet is resilient by design—why it routes around failure, ships information in small chunks, and prizes redundancy—the clues aren’t just in computer science labs. They’re in convoys, depots, and the gritty choreography of Allied logistics during World…