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

[Vint Cerf]

it is a terrific piece of writing - Mitch's other books are equally worth
reading.

v


On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 7:26 PM, Eric Gade <eric.gade at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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