9 Dec
2020
9 Dec
'20
2:41 a.m.
On Sat, 5 Dec 2020, Noel Chiappa wrote:
Yep; I know that first map well :-) For the newbies here, the ARPAnet was
the predecessor of the Internet (no, it didn't spring from the brow of
Zeus, nor Billy Gates), and what we now call "routers" were then IMPs
(look it up).
The ARPAnet
reached four nodes on this day in 1969 .. the nodes were
UCSB, UCLA, SRI, and Utah.
Yeah; see the first map here:
http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/arpageo.html Missing maps gratefully received!
Indeed; history needs to be kept alive, lest it die.
-- Dave