[ih] TCP adoption in 1984

John Levine johnl at iecc.com
Sat May 2 18:56:39 PDT 2026


It appears that Greg Skinner via Internet-history <gregskinner0 at icloud.com> said:
>It occurred to me that some of this information might be inferred from UUCP maps.  Some UUCP Mapping Project <https://stargatemuseum.org/html/the_uucp_project__1984.html> entries contained the operating
>system the machine ran.  Those sites could have run TCP/IP networks internally that were not (yet) connected to the Internet.

Probably not.  My site ima was in those 1982 maps and while there were sites that could gateway mail to the Arpanet, I don't
remember anyone mentioning a disconnected TCP network.

R's,
JOhn


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