Where it all started

This was node one.

http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/LK/Inet/birth.html

IMP #2 went into Englebart at SRI; IMP #3 to UC-Santa Barbara;
IMP #4 to University of Utah. That was it in 1969: a four-note
ARPAnet.

JaR
Historic Thug

=meanoldman=
Thu Sep 02 11:22:03 CDT 2004

I heard about that on NPR this morning. Today is the 35th anniversary of
the internet. Well sort of. Today is the anniversary of the installation
of first computer with wan capabilities but it didn't have a second one to
communicate with until months later.


"JaR" <plente@spamsuxsofthome.net> wrote in message
news:Xns95585CA21A5EEplentespamsuxsofthom@207.46.248.16...
> This was node one.
>
> http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/LK/Inet/birth.html
>
> IMP #2 went into Englebart at SRI; IMP #3 to UC-Santa Barbara;
> IMP #4 to University of Utah. That was it in 1969: a four-note
> ARPAnet.
>
> JaR
> Historic Thug

billLASTINIT
Thu Sep 02 11:42:01 CDT 2004

=meanoldman= wrote:
> I heard about that on NPR this morning. Today is the 35th
> anniversary of the internet. Well sort of. Today is the anniversary
> of the installation of first computer with wan capabilities but it
> didn't have a second one to communicate with until months later.

Isn't that sort of like inventing ONE telephone? Then waiting a few months
to make another?

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Jerz
Thu Sep 02 11:52:15 CDT 2004

Hmmm.... shouldn't Al Gore be in that picture?


"JaR" <plente@spamsuxsofthome.net> wrote in message
news:Xns95585CA21A5EEplentespamsuxsofthom@207.46.248.16...
> This was node one.
>
> http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/LK/Inet/birth.html
>
> IMP #2 went into Englebart at SRI; IMP #3 to UC-Santa Barbara;
> IMP #4 to University of Utah. That was it in 1969: a four-note
> ARPAnet.
>
> JaR
> Historic Thug

Laura
Thu Sep 02 19:34:39 CDT 2004

circa Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:42:01 -0400, in
microsoft.public.cert.exam.mcse, =?Windows-1252?Q?Frisbee=AE?=
(billLASTINIT@dasi-software.com) said,
> =meanoldman= wrote:
> > I heard about that on NPR this morning. Today is the 35th
> > anniversary of the internet. Well sort of. Today is the anniversary
> > of the installation of first computer with wan capabilities but it
> > didn't have a second one to communicate with until months later.
>
> Isn't that sort of like inventing ONE telephone? Then waiting a few months
> to make another?
>
Well, modems were *really* slow back then, so there wasn't a rush or
anything...
--
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde

billLASTINIT
Fri Sep 03 06:39:46 CDT 2004

Laura A. Robinson wrote:
> circa Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:42:01 -0400, in
> microsoft.public.cert.exam.mcse, =?Windows-1252?Q?Frisbee=AE?=
> (billLASTINIT@dasi-software.com) said,
>> =meanoldman= wrote:
>>> I heard about that on NPR this morning. Today is the 35th
>>> anniversary of the internet. Well sort of. Today is the
>>> anniversary of the installation of first computer with wan
>>> capabilities but it didn't have a second one to communicate with
>>> until months later.
>>
>> Isn't that sort of like inventing ONE telephone? Then waiting a few
>> months to make another?
>>
> Well, modems were *really* slow back then, so there wasn't a rush or
> anything...

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