[ih] How the Soviet Union Sent Its First Man to the Internet in 1982

[Bill Ricker]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Vint Cerf <vint at google.com> wrote:

> who ever wrote this must not have done any homework. Internet was not
> turned on until Jan 1983. This sounds like simply a direct modem link to a
> server in Stockholm.


Likely so. False equivalences abound among those who write for the masses (
Internet = Web = any walled garden social media platform). Even a properly
reported story can be damaged by Editor punching it up ...

Still, being the only Soviet Academic on a western pre-conference dialup
Forum service, even if it was only a walled garden on a standalone 360, is
to be a digital freedom pioneer of sorts.

But ... what if the Stockholm academic 360 had a ​BITNET connection to a
(d)ARPAnet 360 somewhere in Europe ?
When did ad hoc internetworking start ?(The peak of ad%hoc!internetworking
was later, of course.)

-- 
Bill Ricker
bill.n1vux at gmail.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
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