[ih] FYI - DARPA "Paving the Way to the Modern Internet"

[Eric Gade]

That article is by Mitch Waldrop, who has also written what I believe to be
the finest history of computing to date ("Dream Machine"). I'm wondering
what the members of this list who have read it think of the work.

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 5:10 PM, Jack Haverty <jack at 3kitty.org> wrote:

> There's an interesting summary of the history and pre-history of the
> Internet on DARPA's 60th Anniversary website:
>
> https://www.darpa.mil/about-us/timeline/modern-internet
>
> There's a link on that page to "DARPA and the Internet Revolution" which
> is a nice summary of the early timeline starting in 1963.
>
> Licklider (aka "Lick") was my thesis adviser in 1970 and led the group I
> was in at MIT project MAC trying his ideas about "Man Computer
> Symbiosis" out on the then-new ARPANET through the  70s.  Later at BBN I
> worked with Cerf and Kahn on lots of Internet projects through the 80s.
> But this paper puts the early history all together, and I learned some
> things I hadn't known before.
>
> So I thought perhaps the internet-history crowd might be interested.
>
> /Jack Haverty
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Eric
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