[ih] Early Internet history
Noel Chiappa
jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Thu Jul 5 16:05:27 PDT 2018
> From: Craig Partridge
> Earlier -- 1790s (the so-called Napoleonic telegraph ... It interleaved
> messages from multiple spots, I believe.
If that's so, Kleinrock _did_ invent packet switching (since his network
"interleaved messages from multiple spots")... (The part he missed was
breaking a message up into chunks, and sending the chunks separately.)
Noel
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