Long before researchers invented the Internet, ants invented something kind of like an anternet, and the two networks work pretty much the same way.
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Anternet
//ˈæntəˌnɛt//
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2013, Stanford course explores social networking in the 18th century – and in nature, Stanford News She and Balaji Prabhakar, a professor of electrical engineering and of computer science, last year published a paper showing that the ants' "anternet" algorithm follows the same rules as the protocols that regulate data traffic congestion on the Internet.
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