more on 1972 ARPANET Film (was: "an amazing film...")

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Ian Peter <ian.peter () ianpeter com>
Date: March 20, 2006 1:45:48 AM EST
To: dave () farber net, ip () v2 listbox com
Subject: RE: [IP] more on 1972 ARPANET Film (was: "an amazing film...")

If you really want some prehistoric Internet history , try this!

 http://ioih.org

Which explains the history of an industrial steam driven Internet. I
particularly liked the depictation of little children called pings  
who were
employed to travel up and down the steam driven pipes of the Internet to
make sure they didn't rust up.(the name arising from the noise they  
made as
the brushes cleaned the pipes).

Don't know who did this, but I got a good laugh out of it!

Ian Peter


> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net]
> Sent: Monday, 20 March 2006 11:22 AM
> To: ip () v2 listbox com
> Subject: [IP] more on 1972 ARPANET Film (was: "an amazing film...")
>
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Suzanne Johnson <sjohnson () pobox com>
> Date: March 19, 2006 3:27:14 PM EST
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Re: [IP] 1972 ARPANET Film (was: "an amazing film...")
>
>
>
> Without going too far down memory lane,  in response to
> Lauren's comment  I've got to say that amid the "prehistoric
> technology" in this film is a reference to network manaqement
> and control, which has, in my opinion, never developed to the
> same point  since that time.  One possible exception would be
> the Ricochet network in the mid-nineties.
>
> I was on the system staff at Sumex-Aim (at Stanford) back in
> the early-sevienties.  We were  the first non-defense funded
> application
> site on the ARPANET.    One day the system staff were all in the
> offices which were located several blocks from the machine
> room containing our computer and  IMP.  We all started
> getting IMP shut- down messages on our terminals. "IMP going
> down in 30 minutes for 10 minutes", with a count-down of
> minutes after that.  We all looked at each other and asked
> who scheduled the shut down.  None of us had.
>
> Then someone remembered an 800 number we'd been given when we
> connected to the ARPANET.  It was for a "network control
> center somewhere back east".  We called the number and asked
> the person who answered what was going on.  Not expecting a
> coherent answer, we were surprised when the person made a
> quick check and told us:  "your IMP has been having
> intermittent problems for about a week.  It finally was able
> to make a diagnosis of which board was creating the problem.
> We've scheduled and controlled the downtime and a technician
> is there waiting to switch boards.  You will be back up again
> in 10 minutes."
>
> By the time we all regained our composure, and sent someone
> to the machine room, the IMP was fixed and in the process of
> coming back up.
> We then recalled that as a part of being connected to the
> ARPANET, we'd had to ensure that access to the IMP was
> available at all times to ARPANET technicians (we'd given a
> key to them).
>
>         ...Suzanne
>
>
>
> At 8:20 PM -0500 3/18/06, David Farber wrote:
> > Excuse me, I have a sudden urge to dig out some old
> DECtapes, punched
> > paper tapes, stone knives, and bearskins...
> >
> > --Lauren--
> > Lauren Weinstein
>
>
> -------------------------------------
> You are subscribed as ian.peter () ianpeter com To manage your
> subscription, go to
>   http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip
>
> Archives at:
> http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
>
> --
> No virus found in this incoming message.
> Checked by AVG Free Edition.
> Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.2.5/284 - Release
> Date: 17/03/2006

--
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Free Edition.
Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.2.5/284 - Release Date:  
17/03/2006




-------------------------------------
You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org
To manage your subscription, go to
 http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip

Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/