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<div>Yes, there was. As I said, I can't remember the number or
when it disappeared. (It was pretty early. You can't get many
ASCII character boxes on a single sheet of paper.) In fact, I
even have a vague recollection of it being sufficiently popular that
people were asked not to over use it.</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF">I don't remember if we had a map socket. We did have a
survey socket that gave you status on socket 243. If I recall
correctly, Mark Kampe had something to do with
that.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF">-- charley</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Tahoma"
size="-1"><b>From:</b> Steve Crocker [mailto:steve@shinkuro.com]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, August 01, 2009 9:37 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Vint Cerf<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Steve Crocker; John Day; Charles Kline; Noel Chiappa;
internet-history@postel.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ih] ARPAnet maps?</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Alex McKenzie would be the guy to check
with.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Steve</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>On Aug 1, 2009, at 6:31 PM, Vint Cerf
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>john,<br>
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boy I sure don't remember that.<br>
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charley, steve, do you?<br>
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v<br>
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On Aug 1, 2009, at 11:34 AM, John Day wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>No, guys. ;-)<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>The ones you want are the ones that were
produced by a program at NMC. Does anyone remember what the
well-known socket number at SEX was that one connected to to get a
*current* ARPANet map indicating what hosts were up and down?<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>I think it went away when the map would
no longer fit on a single piece of paper or not long after it had to
go to a second page.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>These others are just vague artist's
renderings! ;-)<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Take care,<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>John<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>At 9:43 -0400 2009/08/01, Noel Chiappa
wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite" cite> > From: Bob Braden <<a
href="mailto:braden@ISI.EDU">braden@ISI.EDU</a>><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite> > we try to collect all
the (readable and undamaged) images of ARPAnet<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite> > maps?<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Ditto for early Internet maps. I have a
wonderful fairly early one from 1982<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>(by Jon Postel) that's notable for having
only Class A network numbers on it<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>(that one's up on Wikipedia). It would be
nice to collect all similar very<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>early ones (since those exist in probably
very limited numbers, in physical<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>form).<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite> > From: "William
Plummer" <<a
href="mailto:William.Plummer@alum.mit.edu"
>William.Plummer@alum.mit.edu</a>><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite> > I heard Larry Roberts
tell an audience in about 1975 that the ARPANet<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite> > had grown to the point
he could no longer make a meaningful map of it.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Maybe he meant 'from memory'? BBN
certainly produced nice maps all the way<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>through its lifetime.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Now, the Internet, that's something it's
now hard to produce a meaningful map<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>of! :-)<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Noel</blockquote>
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