From lars at nocrew.org Thu Jan 1 01:26:40 2026 From: lars at nocrew.org (Lars Brinkhoff) Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2026 09:26:40 +0000 Subject: [ih] History from 1960s to 2025 In-Reply-To: (Jack Haverty via Internet-history's message of "Wed, 31 Dec 2025 18:00:37 -0800") References: <62f44110-e053-4870-ad9f-6d4d1b7567b7@bbiw.net> Message-ID: <7wikdlpttb.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> Jack Haverty wrote: > For anyone interested in the history, and/or in watching, or doing, > historical reconstructions: > https://obsolescence.dev/arpanet_home.html > Much more to be done. You probably could help. I'm involved. I'd like to say one thing we have observed running this ARPANET reconstruction is how resilient and self organizing the IMP subnet[*] is. Of course, this is how BBN designed it and it has been described in the literature and on this mailing list, but it's still impressive to see in real life. Well done IMP team! This is part of why we have embarked on this project, to allow pepole to not only read about but also experience the feeling of using the technology. [*] As many here will know, the term "subnet" or "sub network" was used to refer to the IMP network; i.e. the stratum of the ARPANET providing a network service to the hosts, minus the hosts themselves. This is different from what subnet means today.