[ih] internet-history Digest, Vol 14, Issue 5

[John Day]

Certain sites were referred to as the big bad neighbor, but that was 
only in the ritual for catharsis#1.

At 12:47 -0700 2006/04/14, Bob Braden wrote:
>   *>
>   *> So I could be deeply confused, but there's a strong suggestion that
>   *> someone had a brainwave (Bhushan?) between July and August 1972 and that
>   *> it was promptly implemented, at least in west Cambridge (perhaps east
>   *> Cambridge too longer :-)?).
>   *>
>
>It seemed a little difficult for denizens of Cambridge to grasp at the
>time, but the fact is that there were ARPAnet sites that were not even
>(gasp) in Massachussetts!  And some of these sites even had programmers
>capable of implementing the protocols.
>
>Was I annoyed at times by the arrogance of the BBN/MIT axis? Well, yes,
>but we got the job done.
>
>Bob Braden