[ih] Early Internet history

[Richard Bennett]

Hmm…something like scalable addresses?

(sorry, you made it too easy)

> On Jul 5, 2018, at 4:25 PM, Vint Cerf <vint at google.com> wrote:
> 
> well, you might want to think about scale for a moment.
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> v
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> On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 5:50 PM, Richard Bennett <richard at bennett.com <mailto: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.
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> RB
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>> On Jul 5, 2018, at 2:59 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com <mailto:brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>> 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 <https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/historydisplays/FifthFloor/Murray/MurraySpielLR.pdf>
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