[ih] Early networking in the South Pacific

[David Hemmendinger]

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>   1. Early networking in the South Pacific (scott)
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>Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2023 22:10:43 +0000
>From: scott <surfer at mauigateway.com>
>To: internet-history at elists.isoc.org
>Subject: [ih] Early networking in the South Pacific
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>Hello,
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>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.
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>scott
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>Brian E Carpenter - brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com
>Sat Dec 2 19:35:13 PST 2023
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>FYI, this was recently published (IEEE paywall, unfortunately):
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>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
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>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
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>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
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>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
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>Wow, those are interesting pieces of info.  I was unaware that happened 
>so long ago.
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>2023?12?6?(?) 11:02 William <wjt.uow at gmail.com>:
>To: picisoc at picisoc.org
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>One of the authors (Rieko) was/is a PICISOC member.
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>2023?12?20?(?) 12:17 Rieko Hayakawa <hayakawa.rieko at gmail.com>:
>To: picisoc at picisoc.org
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>Dear All,
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>Thank you for circulating my recent paper. My nearly two decades of 
>ICT4D projects, including PEACESAT and USPNet, form the basis of this paper.
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>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.
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>     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
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>I think it is not a paywall.
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>https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2023/04/10255276/1QzynSYz7pK
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