6 Dec
2019
6 Dec
'19
2:41 a.m.
On 12/5/2019 11:05 AM, Larry McVoy wrote:
Admittedly a couple of the maps are hard to process even with zooming in
but a lot of them are very readable even to my old eyes. And yeah, they
don't answer the history question except by inference through visual
comparison. Just couldn't find anything better.
On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 10:20:06AM -0800, Rob Gingell
wrote:
There's another list of the membership (but not the addresses) under
1971 but the descriptions peter out after that.
I was doing some digging for old HOSTS.TXT files, one of which would
give a roughly chronological order, and a sequence of which would allow
for reconstructing the history, but didn't come up with anything.
Well, I did find one file from 1973 that seemed to have the information
but the trouble is that file was a document scan that stopped after the
first page.
Once internetworking experiments started there were sequences of
"assigned number" RFCs that showed the evolution of internetworking and
component networks but I came up empty looking for just the plain old
HOSTS.TXT files.
One decent concise accounting is at
https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/
That seems to list the 1st 4 and then none? Or did I miss it? A collection
of maps of the ARPAnet over time is available from the Computer
History Museum at
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102646704
Too blurry to read the names.