[ih] Early History of the Internet

[Tom Lyon]

If one focuses on user experience, rather than lower layer technology, one
can argue that Arpanet and Internet were essentially the same. Compatible
host naming, email, telnet, ftp...  IMHO.  Of course, Internet evolved from
there.

On Tue, Jan 9, 2024 at 5:24 PM Dave Crocker via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> On 1/9/2024 1:00 PM, Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history wrote:
> > The conceptual leap forward happened, as far as I can tell, in
> > ~1974 thanks largely to Pouzin and it became reality in 1981
> > (or a little bit earlier if you admit uucp).
>
> uucp was, essentially, an single integrated network, with source
> routing. And I guess PARC was doing gatewaying/translation between
> Arpanet/XNS peers, rather than unified internetworking, in the 70s.
>
> While packet-level inter-networking took some more time, it's it's worth
> noting that email-level internetwork was pretty active by the latter
> 70s.  Again, PARC, but then, I think, Berkeley's delivermail/sendmail.
> MMDF was doing it for Army Materiel Command and then CSNet from 1979.  I
> don't remember the details of Bitnet's gatewaying to Arpanet mail.
>
> d/
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