Just a note: if you don't indent your links they'll be made clickable by the markup engine, which is convenient in general and especially for those of us on smart phones. :)

I think he was referring to ARPANET being a military project whose goal was a system that could survive a nuclear attack or other such calamity.

It is not precisely wrong, and thanks for tricking me into opening an obscene picture at work, asshole.

The internet is designed to be highly fault tolerant, because it was based on an arpanet project to design a network that would NOT go down, even if there was damage to a significant percentage of nodes.