[ih] Found on Twitter: a map of the Internet from 1973

Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com
Sun Dec 11 16:21:26 PST 2016


On 12/12/2016 10:50, Stephen Casner wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Dec 2016, Alexander Goldman wrote:
> 
>> https://twitter.com/workergnome/status/807704855276122114
>>
>> David Newbury writes:
>>
>> Going through old papers my dad gave me, I found his map of the internet as
>> of May 1973. The entire internet.
> 
> Of course, that's not the Internet, it is the ARPANET, as the title of
> the graphic says.  The Internet did not exist yet.

A few seconds with Google found one from later in the same year, with a few
small changes. I didn't find one site with *all* of them though. Not even
http://mercury.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/arpageo.html and
http://mercury.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/arpalog.html

(Noel - the second one has faulty links, to /~jnc/tech/jpg/L73Sep.jpg
instead of /~jnc/tech/jpg/ARPANet/L73Sep.jpg etc.)

How often were the maps issued? Did they all come from BBN?

Regards
     Brian




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