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

dave.walden.family at gmail.com dave.walden.family at gmail.com
Sun Dec 11 17:21:30 PST 2016


There have been two articles on ARPANET maps in the last several issues of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing -- maybe the second is in the issue about to come out.

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On Dec 11, 2016, at 7:36 PM, Vint Cerf <vint at google.com> wrote:

> for the most part, BBN produced the maps - as the Internet grew, others did too - likely MERIT which ran the NSFNET backbone for example.
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> On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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> (Noel - the second one has faulty links, to /~jnc/tech/jpg/L73Sep.jpg
> instead of /~jnc/tech/jpg/ARPANet/L73Sep.jpg etc.)
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> How often were the maps issued? Did they all come from BBN?
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>      Brian
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