[TUHS] Berkeley CSRG Building
Larry McVoy
lm at mcvoy.com
Tue Aug 13 00:23:34 AEST 2024
On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 07:51:31AM -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > From: "Erik E. Fair"
>
> > before that, ARPANET was connected
>
> NOTE: "ARPANET" is _always_ (**ALWAYS**) used with the definite article
> ("the"). Don't take my word for it; check out, e.g.
>
> A History of the ARPANET: The First Decade
> https://walden-family.com/bbn/arpanet-completion-report.pdf
> https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA115440.pdf
>
> (There are a lot more contemporaneous documents - AFIPS conference papers,
> etc - if anyone is interested in them.)
>
> I was somewhat polite about it _this_ time.
>
> Noel
The amazing thing, to me, is I was a CS student in very early 1980's and I
had no idea of the history behind the arpanet. I was on UUCP, lm at cs.wisc.edu
was not yet a thing for me. All this history going on around me and I was
clueless.
The executive summary in that first link is spot on, They knew what they
had.
Sadly, they didn't anticipate facebook and bots et al, but I'm not sure,
even now, that they could have done anything about that, a packet is a
packet whether it is for good or evil.
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