[ih] How TCP and the Internet "won" outside of the US?

[Johan Helsingius]

On 24/07/2024 23:08, Tom Lyon via Internet-history wrote:
> Someone in Finland told me that Finland got a huge head-start with TCP/IP
> because in the 80s, as a satellite economy to the USSR, they were not
> aligned with the rest of Europe - and could skip the OSI protocol nonsense.

Finland was not a satellite economy to the USSR any more than, let's
say, Austria, that also had significant trade with the USSR.

Finland had UUCP-based EUnet (that migrated to TCP/IP) and the FUNET
university network that was a mix of DECnet, TCP/IP and IBM BITNET.
Thanks to no-nonsense, pragmatical people like Juha Heinänen, Finland
became one of the first major customers for Cisco routers.

	Julf