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Re: History of the Internet (watch with a stiff drink djf)
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 22:57:20 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: "John S. Quarterman" <jsq () quarterman org> Date: January 9, 2009 8:14:50 PM EST To: dave () farber net, "Michael Slavitch" <slavitch () gmail com> Cc: "John S. Quarterman" <jsq () quarterman org>, "ip" <ip () v2 listbox com> Subject: Re: [IP] History of the Internet (watch with a stiff drink djf)
http://infosthetics.com/archives/2009/01/the_history_of_the_internet.html
I don't know which part is more amusing: the banking cloud that eats a human at the beginning, the attribution of remote access to air conditioning, or IMPs as interfaces to mainframes preceding the ARPANET, or.... X.25 -> gateways -> OSI -> TCP? Huh? So many mythconceptions to choose from! -jsq ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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