From Cold War Panic to Pizza Coins and JPEG MillionairesPART I: Pre-2000 — The Weird, Wild Roots of Blockchain1. 1960s – The Cold War Made Us Paranoid (and Invent the Internet)Ah, the good old days when hairstyles were big and nuclear annihilation was just a Tuesday worry. The U.S. military asked, “What if the Russians nuke our central computer?” and the answer was, “What if we just... didn’t have a central one?” Thus, ARPANET was born — a decentralized network designed to survive nuclear war...