[ih] Early Internet history

[Craig Partridge]

Earlier -- 1790s (the so-called Napoleonic telegraph -
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22909590).  It interleaved messages from
multiple spots, I believe.

Craig

On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 3:50 PM, Richard Bennett <richard at bennett.com> wrote:

> 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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