12 Aug
2024
12 Aug
'24
5:51 p.m.
From: "Erik E. Fair"
before that, ARPANET was connected
NOTE: "ARPANET" is _always_ (**ALWAYS**) used with the definite article
("the"). Don't take my word for it; check out, e.g.
A History of the ARPANET: The First Decade
https://walden-family.com/bbn/arpanet-completion-report.pdf
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA115440.pdf
(There are a lot more contemporaneous documents - AFIPS conference papers,
etc - if anyone is interested in them.)
I was somewhat polite about it _this_ time.
Noel
12 Aug
12 Aug
6:10 p.m.
New subject: Berkeley CSRG Building
On 8/12/24 06:51, Noel Chiappa wrote:
Nice. the ARPANET... why do I think history and language fluidity will
win the war of words? google code-shifting. Just typing that last
sentence is enough to give grammarians everywhere tremors.
Great links though.
Will
From:
"Erik E. Fair"
before that, ARPANET was connected
NOTE: "ARPANET" is _always_ (**ALWAYS**) used with the definite article
("the"). Don't take my word for it; check out, e.g.
A History of the ARPANET: The First Decade
https://walden-family.com/bbn/arpanet-completion-report.pdf
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA115440.pdf
(There are a lot more contemporaneous documents - AFIPS conference papers,
etc - if anyone is interested in them.)
I was somewhat polite about it _this_ time.
Noel 
8:23 p.m.
New subject: Berkeley CSRG Building
On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 07:51:31AM -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote:
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 was on UUCP, lm(a)cs.wisc.edu
was not yet a thing for me. All this history going on around me and I was
clueless.
The executive summary in that first link is spot on, They knew what they
had.
Sadly, they didn't anticipate facebook and bots et al, but I'm not sure,
even now, that they could have done anything about that, a packet is a
packet whether it is for good or evil.
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Larry McVoy Retired to fishing http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat
From:
"Erik E. Fair"
before that, ARPANET was connected
NOTE: "ARPANET" is _always_ (**ALWAYS**) used with the definite article
("the"). Don't take my word for it; check out, e.g.
A History of the ARPANET: The First Decade
https://walden-family.com/bbn/arpanet-completion-report.pdf
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA115440.pdf
(There are a lot more contemporaneous documents - AFIPS conference papers,
etc - if anyone is interested in them.)
I was somewhat polite about it _this_ time.
Noel 
8:36 p.m.
New subject: Berkeley CSRG Building
On 8/12/24 7:23 AM, Larry McVoy wrote:
I was on UUCP, lm(a)cs.wisc.edu
was not yet a thing for me. All this history going on around me and I was
clueless.
and I was at UW-Milw who had a connection through INHP-4
Weirdly, I ran into Rusty at a rest stop on I-80 in Jan 1984 heading west.
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