[ih] Early Internet history

[Richard Bennett]

Nobody goes to the Senate without winning an election. This self-promoting lunatic is running as a Republican in Massachusetts against Elizabeth Warren. His chances of winning a lawsuit are better than winning that election. Dude has’t even won the primary, which will be held on Sept. 4. 

> On Jul 5, 2018, at 10:02 AM, Łukasz Bromirski <lukasz at bromirski.net> wrote:
> 
> Jack,
> 
> Watch out, this self-promoting lunatic is going to US Senate and he may sue you at some point in time for misrepresenting his own version of history:
> 
> https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/inventor-of-email-appeals-ruling-that-tossed-his-libel-suit-against-techdirt/ <https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/inventor-of-email-appeals-ruling-that-tossed-his-libel-suit-against-techdirt/>
> 
> ;)
> 
> -- 
> ./
> 
> On 5 Jul 2018, at 17:34, Jack Haverty <jack at 3kitty.org <mailto:jack at 3kitty.org>> wrote:
> 
>> On 07/05/2018 05:11 AM, Vint Cerf wrote:
>>> what was the time frame for CSS Mail?
>>> 
>>> v
>> 
>> In 1968/9 I was a regular user of CTSS and remember using MAIL.  It
>> wasn't new then, just another command in the system.
>> 
>> If "email" is considered broadly as electronic communication, I remember
>> using IBM JCL in 1967 to send messages from one human to another, via
>> punch cards - e.g., asking the operator to mount a tape.
>> 
>> Prior to that, of course there was the telegraph and telegrams.  Perhaps
>> that would be "electric mail".
>> 
>> I was in Paris recently and spent several hours at the Musee des Arts et
>> Metiers, essentially a museum of technology.  One section is devoted to
>> "Communications".  I noticed one display cabinet containing a machine
>> that was somehow used to "allow several telegraph operators to share the
>> same wire" - so I guess Multiplexing has been around since the 19th century.
>> 
>> Apparently humans need to communicate, and as each new means of
>> transporting messages comes around, someone figures out a way to use it
>> to talk with others.
>> 
>> There's lots of interesting old stuff preserved in those glassed-in
>> display cases.
>> 
>> When you look into one of those cases and see a well-worn and carefully
>> preserved piece of history, and your immediate reaction is "Hey, I used
>> to use one of those!" -- that's when you know you're getting old.....
>> 
>> /Jack Haverty
>> 
>> 
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Richard Bennett
High Tech Forum <http://hightechforum.org/> Founder
Ethernet & Wi-Fi standards co-creator

Internet Policy Consultant

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