[ih] Nit-picking an origin story

[Dave Crocker]

On 8/16/2025 4:42 PM, Joe Touch via Internet-history wrote:
> I would hope most would recall Ethernet. 🙂

1973. 4 years after the 1969 milestone.


> And much older and analog, a party-line phone.

Not a data service.

the scope of my original query was meant to be about much closer -- and 
possibly competitive or complementary -- milestones: automated, shared 
(wide-area) digital communications.

So, for example, telegraph signal/smoke fires,  heliography and the like 
play into the larger... picture.

d/

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