17 Oct
2017
17 Oct
'17
4:32 p.m.
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 08:57:15AM -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote:
Yeah, I bet it was Larry Landweber who told me, so maybe it was CSNET. I
sent him mail, we'll see if he replies.
--lm
From: Larry
McVoy
>> I was told, by someone that I don't
remember, that uwisc was the 11th
>> node on the net. ... If anyone can confirm or deny that I'd love to know.
I dunno.
I don't have any axe to grind here. I don't care if they were the first, or
the last. You asked "If anyone can confirm or deny that I'd love to
know",
and all I'm trying to do is _accurately_ answer that.
That 1985 map has uwisc in there
I have a large collection of ARPANET maps here:
http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/arpanet.html
and the first one on which UWisc shows up is the October, 1981 geographical
map - over ten years since the ARPANet went up (December, 1969 is the earliest
map I have there).
Which "net" are we talking about here? ARPANET? CSNET? Internet? The UUCP
network
long post-dated the ARPANET - I think it was started in the late 70's, no?
The earliest Internet map I have is from 1982, here:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Internet_map_in_Februar…
and again UWisc is not on it. (Yes, I know it's on Wikipedia, but I'm the one
who uploaded it, so I can verify it.)
CSNET I don't know much about, that may have been what the comment referred
to.
Wikipedia (for what little we can trust it) says "By 1981, three sites were
connected: University of Delaware, Princeton University, and Purdue
University"; since Lawrence Landweber at UWis was the main driver of CSNET, I
doubt it would have been far behind. 