[ih] Nit-picking an origin story

[Dave Crocker]

My Facebook feed just delivered a tidbit from UCLA that begins:

    "In 1969, UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock directed the transmission
    of the first message between two networked computers..."

I found myself wondering a bit about that characterization:

 1. Didn't BBN do some inter-host packet exchanges, when testing the
    IMPs, before shipping them to UCLA and SRI?  Wouldn't that have
    counted as the actual first?
 2. There were other packet research projects, at the time, but I don't
    remember the details of timing of other 'WAN' and 'LAN' project. 
    1969 was early enough that it's entirely possible the others were
    later, but I'd be interested in hearing the details.

I suspect the refinement of the UCLA statement would be:

    "In 1969, UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock directed the transmission
    of the first message between two networked computers

-- 
Dave Crocker

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