Who invented the internet? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

17 Feb 1999

It's somewhat divergent from the current topic, but it might interest some
to know that the Honeywell '516 is the engine control computer which was
still in use on the space shuttle at the time of the Challenger accident. 
There were two, one redundant, for each engine, of which I believe there
were three.

Dick

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  From: Sam Ismail &lt;dastar(a)ncal.verio.com&gt;
 To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
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  Subject: Re: Who invented the internet?
 Date: Wednesday, February 17, 1999 1:36 AM

 On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Doug wrote:

 > I was searching the web for a picture of a Honeywell IMP (DDP-516), and I
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  > found one sitting on the home page of Leonard
Kleinrock, self-proclaimed
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   Inventor of
the Internet: 
 	http://millennium.cs.ucla.edu/LK/Inet/birth.html  
 He certainly has an interesting story for such a major contribution to
 computing since I've never heard of him either.

 Get this:

 "In this work, he developed the basic principles of packet switching, thus
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  providing the fundamental underpinnings for that
technology."

 As far as I know the concept of packet switching was first described by
 Paul Baran of the Rand Corporation (see a timeline at
 http://www.unc.edu/courses/jomc050/pioneers3.html.  Interestingly enough
 the name "Kleinrock" does not show up anywhere in this list).

 But this guy certainly takes the liberty of practically taking full credit
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  for single-handedly inventing the internet.

 How about this:

 "More recently, Kleinrock has taken the leading role in the new technology
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  of Nomadic Computing and Communications; the idea is
to create a
 technology that will support the nomadic user in his computing and
 communication needs as he travels from place to place."

 This has already been pioneered by Steven Roberts and his BEHEMOTH (see
 http://www.doitsports.com/biketour/tolman/nomad.htm).

 Does this dude have an original idea?

 This guy seems to like to take credit for stuff other people invented.  I
 hate guys like that.  Maybe this is a scam web site like that one that was
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  posted last year about the one dude who purportedly
single-handedly
 invented the personal computer and the GUI (didn't that guy also claim to
 have invented the internet?)

 Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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