[ih] Single Malt Scotch and the history of the net Re: DARTnet: Evolution of Internet audio and video

[Andrew G. Malis]

I was a colleague of Mike's at MITRE, and thus got to discuss the topic in
person! I got some good pointers for duty-free shopping when on vacation or
on a business trip in the UK.

Cheers,
Andy


On Fri, Oct 3, 2025 at 10:29 AM Bill Ricker via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM Barbara Denny via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>
> > The role of Single Malt Scotch in the history of the net is a  topic that
> deserves exploration
>
> One aspect of that is that MALTS-L was a very early mailing list not
> directly responsive to the (d)ARPA-net charter.
> (I suspect SF-lovers was in fact earlier but can neither confirm nor
> refute. Yet. It moved hosts repeatedly so full archives are unavailable.)
>
> My mentor in such matter, Mike Padlipsky, aka MAP, was an early if not
> founding member of MALTS-L, and would stop in Scotland when returning from
> European sittings of IRG to do "research" at the Aviemore "Cairngorm Whisky
> Centre" (a Scotch Library, alas since closed). Before Sir Tim invented a
> Web for Web Logs to be abbreviated to 'blogs', Mike was effectively
> blogging his Single Malt Scotch search on MALTS-L (by email).
>
> Already in the 1970s one of the early network implementors, or "Old Network
> Boys" as MAP punned,
> "had dropped out and bought a 'mom and pop' tree nursery in Boring [OR]
> with his then-new bride. He was also one of the two other Old Network Boys
> with whom I'd had my/our first tastes of Laphroaig, from around 1 A.M. to 4
> A.M. after a meeting at SRI a few years earlier to do something vaguely
> historical, probably refine the File Transfer Protocol"
> is central to the prologue of his 40 year quest for the A&N Glen Grant MOHM
> (and whatever was second best).
>
>  AFAIK MAP never wrote the full tale, so I've collected his "Prolegomena",
> his progress reports, and my own telling of the tragic phyrric denouement.
> (Along with his database of tasting notes, and the tasting list for his
> wake, catered from his own cellar.)
>
>   https://n1vux.github.io/articles/MAP/Malt/index.html
>
> (From there you can also go up to his technical bibliography and his
> ~first~
> second ever thesis on SciFi as Lit Crit.)
>
> As MAP would have said,
> Muted Cheers
>
> Bill Ricker, Boston
> Literary and Spiritous Estate of Michael A Padlipsky
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