[ih] early networking

[Sivasubramanian M]

John,

There was hardly anything redudant, 'multi-path', decentralised, end-to-end
free, open about telegrams.  OUR "InterNetWorks"  is something totally and
fundamentally different from THEIR telephones and telegrams, hence it is
unwise to allow THEM to trace the history of Internetworking to the
telegram switches bought by the Army, Navy and Airforce !

On Tue, 9 Apr, 2024, 09:19 John Day, <jeanjour at comcast.net> wrote:

> I guess this begs the question, what was the solution to internetworking?
>
> > On Apr 8, 2024, at 23:33, Sivasubramanian M via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> >
> > This history video narrated by an AI-like voice traces the history of the
> > Internet to telegraph switching and makes a passing suggestion that US
> > Army, Navy and Airforce instituted automated telegraph switching euipment
> > ... this was perhaps the first Internetwork. Clever argument.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 9 Apr, 2024, 03:35 Vint Cerf via Internet-history, <
> > internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> >
> >> interesting pre-Arpanet/Internet history
> >>
> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkwWZ6ujy0
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