[ih] Early History of the Internet

[Brian E Carpenter]

Jack,

Thanks, that's a nice article.

But there is a bit of a category mistake. The APRPANET wasn't the
Internet. I couldn't use the APRPANET in 1971-73 when I took my
first baby steps in networking at CERN. I couldn't use it in
1974-1976 when we tried to set up an inter-university network in
New Zealand, and I still couldn't use it in 1977 back at CERN.
(There were a few lucky users in the UK and Norway by then,
of course, but it was still a network, not a catenet.)

The conceptual leap forward happened, as far as I can tell, in
~1974 thanks largely to Pouzin and it became reality in 1981
(or a little bit earlier if you admit uucp).

Regards
    Brian Carpenter

On 10-Jan-24 06:33, Jack Haverty via Internet-history wrote:
> IMHO, this essay provides a good overview of the early history leading
> to the development of the Internet:
> 
> https://www.freaktakes.com/p/the-third-university-of-cambridge
> 
> Professor Licklider was my thesis advisor, and later boss, at MIT, and
> from 1977 to 1990 I worked at BBN in the same group that built and
> evolved the ARPANET.   The history told in the essay agrees with my
> recollections of the time span when I was involved at MIT and BBN.
> 
> As told in the essay, Lick's vision of a "galactic network" was using a
> collection of computers, communicating amongst themselves over some kind
> of electronic means, to assist people in doing everything people do.
> That was the mantra that drove creation of the ARPANET, and that we
> tried (are trying) to evolve into today's Internet.
> 
> Jack Haverty
> (MIT 1966-1977; BBN 1977-1990)
> 
>