17 Feb
1999
17 Feb
'99
3:35 p.m.
Date sent: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 00:13:00 -0500 (EST)
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From: Doug <doug(a)blinkenlights.com>
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers"
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Who invented the internet?
Originally to: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
I was searching the web for a picture of a Honeywell
IMP (DDP-516), and I
found one sitting on the home page of Leonard Kleinrock, self-proclaimed
Inventor of the Internet:
http://millennium.cs.ucla.edu/LK/Inet/birth.html
I've heard that UCLA hosted Arpanet node #1 (I've also heard that BBN was
supposed to host node #0, but their IMP didn't work), but I've never heard
of Kleinrock....
-- Doug
Kleinrock was part of the ARPA group that gave birth to ARPANet. I'm a little
fuzzy right now (it's getting late) but it was either Kleinrock or JC Licklider who
came up with the idea of packet switching. I suggest getting a copy of "Nerds
2.0.1" by Steve Segaller. It's a fairly detailed history of the net, and is the
written companion to the PBS series of the same name.
Quite interesting to read about those guys. The things they envisioned and
wrote about in the '60's are just starting to happen in the last couple of years.
It's absolutely scary what was going on in the minds of the ARPA scientists as
well as the team from PARC (some guys ended up working for both). And the
most amazing thing about the ARPA guys is that in their minds, the internet
was a done deal from the start. They knew it would work -- they just needed to
work out a few hardware details to make it happen. Makes you feel somewhat
inadequate at times.......
Paul Braun
NerdWare -- The History of the PC and the Nerds who brought it to you.
nerdware(a)laidbak.com
www.laidbak.com/nerdware