[ih] New paper on Internet pre-history

[Karl Auerbach]

I have a friend from the University of Hawaii who has worked on projects 
to raise some of those old undersea cables and repurpose pieces of them 
as data links to deep (e.g. 15,000 feet down) instruments.

         --karl--

On 8/16/25 1:43 PM, Nelson H. F. Beebe via Internet-history wrote:
> 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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