[ih] Early Internet history

[Richard Bennett]

So there’s really nothing novel about the Internet. Digital communication has been done with end-to-end control of multiplexed packets since the early 20th century, and the phone network was just a diversion. 

Cool.

RB

> On Jul 5, 2018, at 2:59 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 06/07/2018 03:34, Jack Haverty wrote:
> ...
>> I was in Paris recently and spent several hours at the Musee des Arts et
>> Metiers, essentially a museum of technology.  One section is devoted to
>> "Communications".  I noticed one display cabinet containing a machine
>> that was somehow used to "allow several telegraph operators to share the
>> same wire" - so I guess Multiplexing has been around since the 19th century.
> 
> It was perceived as a requirement very early. Wikipedia dates it to the 1870s.
> But I think the first really successful version was the "Murray Multiplex" in
> about 1909. My colleague Bob Doran has studied Donald Murray's works at some length:
> https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/historydisplays/FifthFloor/Murray/MurraySpielLR.pdf
> 
>   Brian
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Richard Bennett
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Ethernet & Wi-Fi standards co-creator

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