<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hmm…something like scalable addresses?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(sorry, you made it too easy)<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 5, 2018, at 4:25 PM, Vint Cerf <<a href="mailto:vint@google.com" class="">vint@google.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">well, you might want to think about scale for a moment.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">v</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 5:50 PM, Richard Bennett <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:richard@bennett.com" target="_blank" class="">richard@bennett.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class="">So there’s really nothing novel about the Internet. Digital communication has been done with end-to-end control of multiplexed packets since the early 20th century, and the phone network was just a diversion. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cool.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></font></span><div class=""><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class="">RB</font></span><div class=""><div class="h5"><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 5, 2018, at 2:59 PM, Brian E Carpenter <<a href="mailto:brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_5306731442089563639Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 06/07/2018 03:34, Jack Haverty wrote:<br class="">...<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I was in Paris recently and spent several hours at the Musee des Arts et<br class="">Metiers, essentially a museum of technology. One section is devoted to<br class="">"Communications". I noticed one display cabinet containing a machine<br class="">that was somehow used to "allow several telegraph operators to share the<br class="">same wire" - so I guess Multiplexing has been around since the 19th century.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">It was perceived as a requirement very early. Wikipedia dates it to the 1870s.<br class="">But I think the first really successful version was the "Murray Multiplex" in<br class="">about 1909. My colleague Bob Doran has studied Donald Murray's works at some length:<br class=""><a href="https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/historydisplays/FifthFloor/Murray/MurraySpielLR.pdf" target="_blank" class="">https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/<wbr class="">historydisplays/FifthFloor/<wbr class="">Murray/MurraySpielLR.pdf</a><br class=""><br class=""> Brian<br class=""><br class="">_______<br class="">internet-history mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:internet-history@postel.org" target="_blank" class="">internet-history@postel.org</a><br class=""><a href="http://mailman.postel.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history" target="_blank" class="">http://mailman.postel.org/<wbr class="">mailman/listinfo/internet-<wbr class="">history</a><br class="">Contact <a href="mailto:list-owner@postel.org" target="_blank" class="">list-owner@postel.org</a> for assistance.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div><span class=""><div class="">
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