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

[Joe Touch]

Hi, all,

We have an archive here at the Postel Center of Jon's notes.

Although I'm no handwriting expert, some of the early hand-drawn ones do
look like Jon's handwriting.

FWIW.

Joe


On 12/12/2016 6:24 AM, Alex McKenzie wrote:
> The origin of the famous hand-drawn first map is unclear.  Many of us
> think it was probably drawn by Jon Postel, but Jon had died before the
> question of its origin became interesting to most people.  When Peter
> Salus was writing his book "Casting the Net" he wanted to use that
> map, but his publisher insisted on a signed release from the author. 
> Peter approached me at some conference and asked if I knew who the
> author was.  I suggested Jon, and Peter sighed because Jon had already
> died and therefore it would be impossible to get a release from him. 
> So I offered to redraw the map from memory on the spot and then sign a
> release to Peter.  For that reason some versions of the hand-drawn map
> are attributed to me.
>
> Cheers,
> Alex
>
>
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> *From:* Stephen Casner <casner at acm.org>
> *To:* Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
> *Cc:* internet-history at postel.org
> *Sent:* Sunday, December 11, 2016 8:29 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [ih] Found on Twitter: a map of the Internet from 1973
>
> On Sun, 11 Dec 2016, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>
> >    > Did they all come from BBN?
> >
> > All the ARPANet ones, yes, I m pretty sure (except for a few early ones,
> > maybe).
>
> The famous first one was hand drawn by Jon Postel, as I recall.
>
>                                                         -- Steve
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