[GreenKeys] Incredible . .

[Bob Camp]

Hi

Well it looks like the ARPANET is out to displace just about every other 
system around. My cable company is certainly trying pretty hard to make that 
true.

Back at it's inception ARPANET was set up to link various university 
research sites with high speed (read darn slow) lines. They seemed to think 
that having the academic nerds on the military network was some sort of a 
threat to national security.

The other driver was that they had applications in to link everybody to 
anybody with each program buying their own line. Back in those days a 56K 
line running 24/7 was *expensive*. Dial up at those exotic speeds was not 
considered to be a viable option.

Net result was we got the ARPANET as part of a cost reduction proposal ....

    Take Care!

            Bob Camp
            KB8TQ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Russmill47 at aol.com>
To: <wa0sxv at mellinger.com>
Cc: <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 2:18 PM
Subject: RE: [GreenKeys] Incredible . .


> Quite true about ARPANET, Mike!
>
> And does anyone know which Western Union government system ARPANET 
> displaced?
>
> It was AUTODIN...not as resilient system design as ARPANET, which  could 
> lose
> multiple nodes, for whatever reason, and still keep on ticking.
>
> Russ
>
>
> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 07:02:09 -0600
> From: "Mike Mellinger WA0SXV"  <wa0sxv at mellinger.com>
> Subject: RE: [GreenKeys] Incredible . . .
> To:  <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
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>
> NOT!
>
> Berners-Lee  invented the World Wide Web, not the Internet.  The Internet 
> was
> started  as ARPANET in the 70's.
>
> Mike
>
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