[ih] questions on arpanet

[Dave Crocker]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 19:24:12 +0200, rdandi at luiss.it wrote:
>particular I am interested in studying how and to what extent CMC 
technologies (email, online RFCs...) impacted on coordination and 
identification within the early arpanet community.

the impact was tremendous.  it quickly became key to multi-organization 
collaboration.


>  1) Email traffic: is there any statistics on the use of email in 
arpanet in the period 1972-1978? In some documents I found reference to 
a study according to which in 1973 email traffic was about 75% of the 
whole traffic in arpanet. Do you know where can I find this study? In 
RFCs I found only traffic statistics (by McKenzie) that do not 
distinguish email traffic.

I do not have numbers, but the reports I remember hearing through the 
70's and even 80's was that Telnet, not email, dominated network 
traffic.


d/