[ih] Fwd: early networking

[John Day]

sorry forgot to hit reply-all

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> From: John Day <jeanjour at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [ih] early networking
> Date: April 9, 2024 at 06:22:45 EDT
> To: Sivasubramanian M <6.internet at gmail.com>
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> Nor was there about virtual circuits and X.25, but it was packet switching.
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> We have known this was totally different for 50+ years.  That isn’t the question. There are probably lots of ways to solve this problem. What was the solution adopted?
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> John
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>> On Apr 9, 2024, at 00:06, Sivasubramanian M <6.internet at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto:internet-history at elists.isoc.org>> wrote:
>>> > 
>>> >> interesting pre-Arpanet/Internet history
>>> >> 
>>> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFkwWZ6ujy0
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