The OGs of Remote Work
In 1969 ARPANET was created by the US Department of Defence. This was the first packet switched network to use TCP/IP. This network was used to connect computers, first across the USA and then in 1973 to the rest of the world. These scientists were the first people that embraced remote working. Remote Working was for the benefit of mankind, a noble endeavour. In 2022, the energetic grandchild of ARPANET has a version of Remote Working, and it has gotten a bad rap. Over the past few years it became synonymous with wearing trackpants on a Zoom call. Mindless scrolling through a news feed with your camera off while you listen to updates from your boss. Workers seen as lazy for wanting the flexibility to work from a location other than an office.
6 min readDec 9, 2022
