[ih] ARPAnet maps?

[Vint Cerf]

john,

boy I sure don't remember that.

charley, steve, do you?

v

On Aug 1, 2009, at 11:34 AM, John Day wrote:

> No, guys.  ;-)
>
> The ones you want are the ones that were produced by a program at  
> NMC.  Does anyone remember what the well-known socket number at SEX  
> was that one connected to to get a *current* ARPANet map indicating  
> what hosts were up and down?
>
> I think it went away when the map would no longer fit on a single  
> piece of paper or not long after it had to go to a second page.
>
> These others are just vague artist's renderings!  ;-)
>
> Take care,
> John
>
> At 9:43 -0400 2009/08/01, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>>    > From: Bob Braden <braden at ISI.EDU>
>>
>>    > we try to collect all the (readable and undamaged) images of  
>> ARPAnet
>>    > maps?
>>
>> Ditto for early Internet maps. I have a wonderful fairly early one  
>> from 1982
>> (by Jon Postel) that's notable for having only Class A network  
>> numbers on it
>> (that one's up on Wikipedia). It would be nice to collect all  
>> similar very
>> early ones (since those exist in probably very limited numbers, in  
>> physical
>> form).
>>
>>    > From: "William Plummer" <William.Plummer at alum.mit.edu>
>>
>>    > I heard Larry Roberts tell an audience in about 1975 that the  
>> ARPANet
>>    > had grown to the point he could no longer make a meaningful  
>> map of it.
>>
>> Maybe he meant 'from memory'? BBN certainly produced nice maps all  
>> the way
>> through its lifetime.
>>
>> Now, the Internet, that's something it's now hard to produce a  
>> meaningful map
>> of! :-)
>>
>> 	Noel
>