[ih] Overlay networks

Carsten Schiefner carsten at schiefner.berlin
Mon Aug 25 07:51:07 PDT 2025


Jack & all -

On 20.08.2025 18:14, Jack Haverty via Internet-history wrote:
> Agreed, the Internet is basically an "overlay network".  IIRC even the 
> term "internet" was derived from "interconnecting networks". Earlier it 
> had been called "Catenet" for "concatenated networks".

given what the Net has been (re-) purposed to over the decades, maybe 
"Catnet" would now be appropriate? ;->

SCNR - best,

	-C.


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