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Re: NSF and the Birth of the Internet
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:42:36 -0400
Bob of course is right I was using email at Bell Labs in the 60s prior to Arpanet djf
Begin forwarded message: From: "Bob Frankston" <Bob19-0501 () bobf frankston com> Date: August 19, 2008 1:05:49 PM EDT To: <dave () farber net>, "'ip'" <ip () v2 listbox com> Subject: RE: [IP] NSF and the Birth of the InternetI can understand NSF wanting to point to its accomplishments but I can’t help thinking of NASA and Tang.
The presentation confuses the "Internet" with networking in general. It may be technically correct that the first use of "@" as a syntax for email was in 1972 but the certainly wasn’t the first email message – thousands of people had already been sending mail long before that time. Of computer networks existed in the 1960’s outside the ARPA world and networking is a basic technology and process.
I don’t want to quibble but I am concerned with giving the impression that funding science is merely a procurement process. Others have noted the omission of Gopher – the Web happened, in a sense, because it didn’t require major funding but could be done as a casual project without having to promise results.
-----Original Message----- From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 12:23 To: ip Subject: [IP] NSF and the Birth of the Internet Begin forwarded message: From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org> Date: August 17, 2008 12:20:59 PM EDT To: Undisclosed-recipients: <>; Cc: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: NSF and the Birth of the Internet (c/o Barry W.....a nifty NSF-produced video history of the Internet.) NSF and the Birth of the Internet [Macromedia Flash Player] http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/nsf-net/index.jsp ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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