23 Oct
2015
23 Oct
'15
8:27 p.m.
On 10/22/2015 7:54 PM, Murray McCullough wrote:
43 years ago around this time the Internet we use to
communicate with
was probably made possible because of TCP/IP, or Transmission Control
Protocol/Internet Protocol created at Stanford University. Today 3
billion people are on the net but really made it possible for this
extravagant number was the microcomputer created at around the same
time ? the Micral in France and 4004 processor machines in the U.S.
Our hobby supported through this web site keeps this history alive.
Hurrah!
Happy computing.
Murray :)
PS This week marks the 100th anniversary of Einstein?s Theory of
General Relativity though published in 1916 according to Wikipedia.
Your account of the Internet and TCP/IP conflicts *significantly* with
several published accounts of the history of the Internet that used
quite reliable sources (many of them still living). Some suggested reading:
The Dream Machine. J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made
Computing Personal. M. Mitchell Waldrop, Penguin
where wizards stay up late: the origins of the internet
katie hafner, matthew lyon, Simon & Schuster
Both very enjoyable reads.