First Internet message and ...

[William Donzelli]

> 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.

AUTODIN was also worldwide by the late 1960s. While it did not allow
interactivity between computers - well, back then that really was not
much of a thing - It did allow email and generic file transfer (stack
of cards - what a file was back then) between varying computer
systems.

And then there was a Western Electric system that I forget the name
of. I have one of the tape drive racks in my garage (videos of this
and my AUTODIN junk eventually)..

--
Will