"the net"

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: Peter H Salus <peter () pedant com>
> Date: September 11, 2009 14:20:06 EDT
> To: dave () farber net, ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
> Cc: Steve Crocker <steve () shinkuro com>, John Day  
> <jeanjour () comcast net>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Re:  "the net"

> I happen to agree with both Steve and John.  But the problem is not
> merely the "arc" that Steve describes, but also the failed attempts
> -- as well as the fact that we can regress as much as we want to on
> a purely conceptual level.
>
> Thus, George Stibitz was the first to execute remote calculation,
> from the AMA meeting at Dartmouth to Bell Labs (a Teletype
> terminal to the Bell Model 1 Complex Calculator) via a telegraph
> connection -- September 10-13, 1940.
>
> Larry Roberts and Thomas Marill connected an SDS AN/FSQ-32
> in Santa Monica to the TX-2 at Lincoln Lab via a 1200 bps phone
> link in 1963.  Certainly transmission between heterogeneous
> machines.
>
> And the work of Davies and Scantlebury at the NPL in the UK
> preceded the ARPAnet, despite the self-advertisement of
> Kleinrock.
>
> "Who's on first?" is not an appropriate game.
>
> Everyone gets some credit.  No one gets *the* credit.
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> "There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat,
> plausible and wrong." -- H.L. Mencken
>
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>
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