Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 33, No. 355.
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    [1]    From: Willard McCarty 
           Subject: Irish Internet history (21)

    [2]    From: Henry Schaffer 
           Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.351: 'Internet' anniversaries (88)


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        Date: 2019-10-29 06:42:04+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty 
        Subject: Irish Internet history

Earlier this decade I wrote a brief piece for Clerics, Kings and
Vikings: Essays on medieval Ireland in honour of Donnchadh Ó Corráin
(Four Courts, 2014): "Risky, experimental, emergent: the timeliness and
genius of CURIA and CELT" to honour the contributions that great man
made to online scholarship. See
https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2015/clerics-kings-and-vikings/
for information about the book. Beatrix Fäerber and Peter Flynn
(University College Cork) were my sources for much of the historical
information I could find. Should anyone be compiling a more inclusive
history, I'd be happy to forward the proofs for my little piece.

Yours,
WM

--
Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/),
Professor emeritus, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College
London; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
(www.tandfonline.com/loi/yisr20) and Humanist (www.dhhumanist.org)



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        Date: 2019-10-28 12:07:13+00:00
        From: Henry Schaffer 
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.351: 'Internet' anniversaries

The mention of Ireland reminds me of the significant contributions of
Dennis Jennings who spent a bit of time at the NSF as Program Director for
Networking. I think he was on leave from University College Dublin.

--henry schaffer

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 2:22 AM Humanist  wrote:

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>         Date: 2019-10-28 01:50:39+00:00
>         From: Sharon Healy 
>         Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.347: 'Internet' anniversaries
>
> Humanist 33.347: 'Internet' anniversaries
>
>
> Dear Professor Naughton
>
> We in Ireland also get confused as to when the Irish Internet Anniversary
> is,
> on modems and packet switching, or when TCP/IP arrived to Ireland, in
> which case
> that was 1991, and we have some very nice Irish history about that,
> https://techarchives.irish/how-the-internet-came-to-ireland-1987-97/
>
> Not raining on anyone's parade either.
>
> Best
>
> Sharon Healy
>
> ________________________________
> From: Humanist 
> Sent: Saturday 26 October 2019 07:45
> To: publish-liv@humanist.kdl.kcl.ac.uk  >
> Subject: [Humanist] 33.347: ‘Internet’ anniversaries
>
>                   Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 33, No. 347.
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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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