<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Bob Kahn was an ARPA program manager. Vint Cerf was a professor (I don't know what adjectives preceded "Professor") at Stanford with an ARPA contract.<br><div><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Alex<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span
style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> internet-history@postel.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, April 12, 2013 7:53 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ih] What is the origin of the root account?<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>
<br>> On 4/11/2013 11:58 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:<br>> <br>>> First off, please be careful to distinguish between _ARPANET_ development<br>>> (both hosts and switches) and _Internet_ development. Totally separate<br>>> efforts, mostly different people, etc, etc.<br><br>Well I'm not sure about the "different people part." I do seem to recall that Kahn and Cerf were both ARPANET program managers before their TCP/IP work - and an awful lot of folks in this discussion were involved in both.<br>> <br>> Please forgive me for that--the difference is indeed important. However, as a non-combatant (nor participant, if you rather) in the flow of history I think of one leading to the other and I'm not sure even now, where the tic on the time-line belongs.<br>Might want to start
here:<br>http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/<br>http://www.computerhistory.org/internet_history/<br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet<br><br>-- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.<br>In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra<br><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>