[GreenKeys] Incredible . . .

[Eugene Hertz]

semi-off topic, but I read a great book on the early development of the arpanet/internet called "where the wizards stay up late" and it talks about the IMPs, or internetwork message processors and all that. Yes, the book mentions teletypes so this post is semi-on topic!

Eugene


>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Lawson [mailto:jpl15 at panix.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 09:38 AM
>To: 'Craig Sawyers'
>Cc: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: RE: [GreenKeys] Incredible . . .
>
> 
> 
>On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Craig Sawyers wrote: 
> 
>>> I thought Gore invented the Internet. Didn't know he invented Audiophools 
>> as well. :-) 
>> 
>> No - the Internet was invented by Tim Berners-Lee, a British guy working at 
>> CERN in Geneva. He wrote the original specification and code for http in 
> 
> As others have pointed out - Lee specced the WWW initial architecture. 
> 
> Bolt, Beranek and Newman, MIT, and (IIRC) UCLA were the main centers of 
>the development of what was then called ARPANET - a 'fail-safe', 
>fault-tolerant communication system designed to survive the aftermath of a 
>nuclear attack on the US. 
> 
> 
> I have a Model 35KSR that we *think* may have been used as a console on 
>one of the early ARPANET Message Processors. 
> 
> 
>Cheers 
> 
> John KB6SCO 
> 
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