17 Aug
2024
17 Aug
'24
1:35 a.m.
On 8/16/24 11:25 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
I was at UC Santa Barbara as an undergrad from 1973 to 1976, and then
back from 1978 to 1985. UCSB was one of the original 4 Arpanet nodes
but virtually nobody outside of a small group in EE knew about it.
I think the Culler-Harrison time sharing research and the speech
research at UCSB and SCRL (Speed Communication Research Laboratory,
a private speech research lab where many of the people were also
affiliated with UCSB), were some of the reasons why UCSB was on
the Arpanet so early.
There were no classes (that I'm aware of) that studied networking,
nor classes that used networking as a tool. In fact, the only
campus-wide network on campus was an Ungerman-Bass network used
to connect terminals to important nodes on campus. When I left UCSB
in 1985 the only WAN networking in place was DECNET between the
Physics Dept (where I was the computing manager) and SLAC.
Jim Frew, who sometimes posts on the list, could correct me if I'm wrong
about any of this. It was a long time ago.
Jon Forrest
From: Larry
McVoy
{Moving this to COFF, as it's not UNIX-related. I'll have another reply there
as well, about the social media point.}
The amazing thing, to me, is I was a CS student
in very early 1980's
and I had no idea of the history behind the arpanet.
I don't think that was that uncommon; at MIT (slightly earlier, I think -
-'74-'77 for me) the undergrad's weren't learning anything about
networking
there either, then.