The Internet & our hobby

Well that is sort of right. I was working for digital at the time and therefore I have a slightly different perspective. Internet has its roots in three places the US universities, Research Establishments and the US military. ARPAnet came sometime before Internet. It was a packet switching network. Inter site everything was done on good old copper telephone lines. The software would have been either IBM or DEC network software. Dial out modems for the small systems and leased lines for the big guys. TCP/IP was not the main protocol used to begin with being a child of UNIX and originating in the universities. TCP/IP was adopted for inter networking 1n 1982 Notice I said inter networking. Yes Internet was the connection between networks not the networks themselves. There were many different local area network protocols usually decreed by the makers of the network hardware The colleges did it just to see if it could be done and the military for a very good (at the time) reason. It was the height of the cold war and peace only maintained by the fact that regardless of who started it both sides would be wiped out. The high level of connectivity helped to ensure that the orders of the President and the generals got to the missile sites and bomber bases even if US had been already attacked and lost some of their communications. Timeline: Packet switched networks developed in the 1970's Microprocessors (4004 early 1970's ) 8085 used in VT100 about 1975 First micro processors to support networking late 70's Loads of differing LAN and WAN (packet switching) software (1970-1980) TCP/IP 1982 Remember my view was from the inside and not as good as from outside. Rod Smallwood On 23/10/15 01:54, Murray McCullough wrote: