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Re: History of the Internet (watch with a stiff drink djf)


From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 22:57:20 -0500



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From: "John S. Quarterman" <jsq () quarterman org>
Date: January 9, 2009 8:14:50 PM EST
To: dave () farber net, "Michael Slavitch" <slavitch () gmail com>
Cc: "John S. Quarterman" <jsq () quarterman org>, "ip" <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: Re: [IP] History of the Internet (watch with a stiff drink djf)

http://infosthetics.com/archives/2009/01/the_history_of_the_internet.html

I don't know which part is more amusing: the banking cloud
that eats a human at the beginning, the attribution of
remote access to air conditioning, or IMPs as interfaces
to mainframes preceding the ARPANET, or....

X.25 -> gateways -> OSI -> TCP?  Huh?

So many mythconceptions to choose from!

-jsq




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