[ih] MAP & BBN

Vint Cerf vint at google.com
Sat May 12 09:58:39 PDT 2012


that was telegraph and telex...
v


On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Leo Vegoda <leo at bind.org> wrote:
> On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 1:08 AM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Weren't electric text communications popularly known as "cables" in the
>> early 20th C?
>
> As I understand it, governments still refer to "cables" for certain
> classes of inter-governmental communications. I doubt they still use
> telex networks, though.
>
> Regards,
>
> Leo



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