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Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 33, No. 369.
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Date: 2019-11-02 01:52:04+00:00
From: Henry Schaffer
Subject: Re: [Humanist] 33.355: 'Internet' anniversaries
Another web site http://internetlegacyinstitute.org dealing with the
history of the Internet.
And then we have https://www.internet2.edu which is much more concerned
with today's Internet than the history - although it does go back to 1996 -
and considers that its "community" goes all the way back - see
https://www.internet2.edu/about-us/internet2-community-timeline/
--henry
On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 2:55 AM Humanist wrote:
> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 33, No. 355.
> Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London
> Hosted by King's Digital Lab
> www.dhhumanist.org
> Submit to: humanist@dhhumanist.org
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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)
>
>
>
> --[1]------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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 à 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)
>
>
>
>
> --[2]------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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:
>
> > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 33, No. 351.
> > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London
> > Hosted by King's Digital Lab
> > www.dhhumanist.org
> > Submit to: humanist@dhhumanist.org
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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 <
> publish-liv@humanist.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
> > >
> > Subject: [Humanist] 33.347: ââ¬ËInternetââ¬â¢ anniversaries
> >
> > Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 33, No. 347.
> > Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London
> > Hosted by King's Digital Lab
> > www.dhhumanist.org
> > Submit to: humanist@dhhumanist.org
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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, itââ¬â¢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 ââ¬â 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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