[ih] Early networking in the South Pacific

[scott]

Hello,

This won't thread properly because I deleted the original email from 
Brian Carpenter, but I wanted to forward it to the list as one of the 
authors on the PICISOC mailing list gave me a link that is not behind a 
paywall and, since the Pacific Ocean is 1/3 of the plant's surface area, 
communications and internet over such a large and challenging 
environment is really interesting.

scott


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Brian E Carpenter - brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com
Sat Dec 2 19:35:13 PST 2023


FYI, this was recently published (IEEE paywall, unfortunately):

R. Hayakawa, R. Underwood and J. Anson, "The Modern History of ICT in 
Oceania—PEACESAT and USPNet," in IEEE Annals of the History of 
Computing, vol. 45, no. 4, pp. 11-26, Oct.-Dec. 2023, doi: 
10.1109/MAHC.2023.3316670
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From: surfer at mauigateway.com
To: picisoc at picisoc.org

I haven't read it, but I thought I would forward this email here, since 
it's about the South Pacific.  It's from the 'internet history' mailing 
list.
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On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 9:56 AM ICTL <ictl at linnixislands.com wrote:
To: picisoc at picisoc.org

Thank you Scott: would be interesting! So little is known around here 
about the early satellites. And the first cross Pac submarine cable had 
a landing station in the Line Islands well over a century ago.
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On 12/3/23 11:10 PM, Jackson Miake wrote:
To: picisoc at picisoc.org

Interesting indeed. The first succesful telegraph cable was laid between 
Canada, Fiji, Norfolk Island and Australia in 1902.
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 From surfer at mauigateway.com
To: picisoc at picisoc.org

Wow, those are interesting pieces of info.  I was unaware that happened 
so long ago.
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2023年12月6日(水) 11:02 William <wjt.uow at gmail.com>:
To: picisoc at picisoc.org

One of the authors (Rieko) was/is a PICISOC member.
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2023年12月20日(水) 12:17 Rieko Hayakawa <hayakawa.rieko at gmail.com>:
To: picisoc at picisoc.org

Dear All,

Thank you for circulating my recent paper. My nearly two decades of 
ICT4D projects, including PEACESAT and USPNet, form the basis of this paper.

Since 2008 I have been busy with maritime security and Indo-Pacific 
projects. However, ICT4PICs remains my life's work. I am delighted to 
have Dr. Underwood from Guam for this paper.

     Rieko Hayakawa PhD
     Law School
     Doshisha University
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On 12/20/23 3:28 AM, Rieko Hayakawa wrote:
To: picisoc at picisoc.org

I think it is not a paywall.

https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2023/04/10255276/1QzynSYz7pK
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