[ih] MAP & BBN

[Miles Fidelman]

actually, I was reminded of this by some of the wikileaks material - 
which is described as inter-governmental "diplomatic cables" - which 
look like formal message traffic -- which leads one to wonder what they 
were transmitted over

Vint Cerf wrote:
> 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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