First Internet message and ...

[alan at alanlee.org]

Taking the risk of opening another can of worms...

ARPANET wasn't the first large scale data network.  I believe SITA HLN 
was world-wide by 1969.  However it was a mix of switching technologies 
from fully automated to manual depending on what part of the world you 
were in.  Frankfurt was the first SITA node to transition to fully 
automatic data routing in 1966.

And ARPANET wasn't the largest data network when TCP/IP was formalized 
in the early 80s.  We only recognize it as the 'Internet' because of 
it's lineage.

-Alan


On 2019-11-24 17:07, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
> The first Internet message was sent 60 yrs. ago on Nov. 21 between SRI 
> and
> UCLA. It was one-to-many, or more accurate one-to-one, but the world 
> today
> is many-to-many though cctalk runs through a moderator. The Internet
> democratizes and gives a certain freedom to us all but it can lead to
> mis-information  from "one" or mis-interpretation by the "many".
> Computerization of society as seen through cctalk tells this story well
> mainly through the hardware side.
> 
> Happy computing.
> 
> Murray  ☺