[ih] early networking

[Wayne Hathaway]

It's not a great literary work, but along the lines of this discussion, I would recommend "The Victorian Internet" by Tom Standage.  Just to keep everything in proper perspective.

wayne
 



On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 09:36:36 +0530, Sivasubramanian M via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

>> John,
>>
>> There was hardly anything redudant, 'multi-path', decentralised, end-to-end
>> free, open about telegrams. OUR "InterNetWorks" is something totally and
>> fundamentally different from THEIR telephones and telegrams, hence it is
>> unwise to allow THEM to trace the history of Internetworking to the
>> telegram switches bought by the Army, Navy and Airforce !
>>
>> On Tue, 9 Apr, 2024, 09:19 John Day, wrote:
>>
>> > I guess this begs the question, what was the solution to internetworking?
>> >
>> > > On Apr 8, 2024, at 23:33, Sivasubramanian M via Internet-history <
>> > internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > This history video narrated by an AI-like voice traces the history of the
>> > > Internet to telegraph switching and makes a passing suggestion that US
>> > > Army, Navy and Airforce instituted automated telegraph switching euipment
>> > > ... this was perhaps the first Internetwork. Clever argument.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Tue, 9 Apr, 2024, 03:35 Vint Cerf via Internet-history, <
>> > > internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> interesting pre-Arpanet/Internet history
>> > >>
>> > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkwWZ6ujy0
>> > >>
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