<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Vint Cerf <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vint@google.com" target="_blank">vint@google.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">who ever wrote this must not have done any homework. Internet was not turned on until Jan 1983. This sounds like simply a direct modem link to a server in Stockholm. </blockquote></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Likely so. False equivalences abound among those who write for the masses ( Internet = Web = any walled garden social media platform). Even a properly reported story can be damaged by Editor punching it up ...<br><br>Still, being the only Soviet Academic on a western pre-conference dialup Forum service, even if it was only a walled garden on a standalone 360, is to be a digital freedom pioneer of sorts.<br><br>But ... what if the Stockholm academic 360 had a BITNET connection to a (d)ARPAnet 360 somewhere in Europe ?<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">When did ad hoc internetworking start ?(The peak of ad%hoc!internetworking was later, of course.)<br></div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Bill Ricker<br><a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a><div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux</a> <br></div></div></div>
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