[ih] early networking

Vint Cerf vint at google.com
Tue Apr 9 02:35:06 PDT 2024


yes, that's a great book. Headlines about telegraph read like Internet in
the 1990s especially.

v


On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 10:31 PM Wayne Hathaway via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> 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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