Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 33, No. 348.
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    [1]    From: Henry Schaffer 
           Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.347: Internet anniversaries (11)

    [2]    From: Henry Schaffer 
           Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.347: Internet anniversaries (74)


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        Date: 2019-10-27 00:00:40+00:00
        From: Henry Schaffer 
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.347: Internet anniversaries

Just came across this
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-10-23/patt-morrison-eric-schmidt-
google
which starts out talking about the "history".

Incidentally, speaking about DH, note that one of the early users shown (at
2:22 in the short video) was Ron Weissman, an Italian Renaissance Historian.

--henry schaffer



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        Date: 2019-10-26 21:57:55+00:00
        From: Henry Schaffer 
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.347: Internet anniversaries

I love discussing the early days of data networking. There are so many
different contributions. Let's not forget usenet and Bitnet. Then, the next
step from ARPAnet (military based) was NSFnet. The NSFnet was composed of a
backbone plus the regional networks. I'm particularly interested in
SURAnet, the SE USA network under the aegis of the Southeastern
Universities Research Association. For more on that see
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEfNjkl0WfQ&t=13s  or the longer version
which is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlOsPR5bHKg&t=12s

There has been a lot of interest in the history, and FARnet
http://www.farnet.org/reports/index.html has a lot on this.

A lot of interesting things went on back then. One thing I remember was the
competition (fight?) between tcp/ip (USA) and OSI (European). What was
"interesting" in the USA is that the Federal Gov't pushed OSI and the
Library of Congress tried *very* hard to get all the higher ed libraries in
the country to only use OSI. We know how that ended, but the entire process
was fascinating!

There were also major tussles regarding such other protocols as SNA (IBM),
...

Then, in the Local Area Network (LAN) we had Ethernet and IBM's Token Ring.
I'm sure there are many histories on that - e.g.
https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/the-birth-and-rise-of-ethernet-a-
history-1706.html

--henry schaffer


On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 2:45 AM Humanist  wrote:

>                   Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 33, No. 347.
>             Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London
>                    Hosted by King's Digital Lab
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>
>         Date: 2019-10-25 13:59:16+00:00
>         From: John Naughton 
>         Subject: "Internet" anniversaries
>
> Dear Willard
>
> One doesn"t want to rain on well-intentioned parades but the declaration
> that "In a week's time the internet will be exactly 50 years old" is a
> tad misleading. Technically the  Internet is the network of networks
> based on the TCP/IP family of protocols which was was first switched on
> in January 1983 and is therefore only 36 years old.  The anniversary
> celebrations on November 6 must refer to the Arpanet, the
> Pentagon-funded precursor to the Internet, which, although it uses
> packet-switching, was significantly different from the TCP/IP network.
> So the anniversary must actually be a celebration of packet-switching.
> The only problem with that is that packet-switching was independently
> conceived some time earlier by Paul Baran at RAND and Donald Davies at
> the  National Physical Laboratory at Teddington. En passant, it"s
> perhaps worth noting that the only node of the Arpanet physically
> located outside of the continental US was in Peter Kirstein"s Lab just
> up the road from King"s -- in UCL!
>
> Best
>
> John
> .........
> Professor John Naughton
> Director, Press Fellowship
> Wolfson College, Cambridge
> e: jjn1@cam.ac.uk
> w: memex.naughtons.org
> t: +44 7836 373799



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