[ih] New paper on Internet pre-history

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

I usually expect to find history research reported in history
journals, but sometimes, there are exceptions, including this
interesting new article:

	Motohiro Tsuchiya and Kristi Govella

	Undersea cables and the extension of empire: the rise of Britain,
	Japan, and the United States and the competition to connect Hawai'i
	Marine Policy 181 (2025) 106844

	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2025.106844

	https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/marine-policy

While the article mainly covers the years of undersea cable laying
from the 1840s into the 20th Century, for telegraph, and later,
telephone, traffic, it also treats the movement away from expensive
cable communication to wireless communication, and takes the story
right up to this decade with a discussion of undersea cable sabotage
that affects Internet traffic.  It also shows how, and why, Hawai'i
was a key site in the effort to implement trans-Pacific communication.

List readers will certainly be aware of the ALOHAnet system that
became operational at the University of Hawai'i in 1971:

	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALOHAnet

That work contributed to the development of mobile telephones that now
are found throughout the world, notably in our pockets and handbags,
and on wrists.

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