29 Oct
2009
29 Oct
'09
10:56 a.m.
29 Oct
29 Oct
11:11 a.m.
Evan Koblentz wrote:
And I have already posted a correction that it was Charley Kline, not Leonard Kleinrock.
MOUNTAIN VIEW and MENLO PARK Calif., CAMBRIDGE Mass.
?October 26, 2009?
Forty years ago this week, two programmers sat in front of computer terminals
four hundred miles apart. Unknowingly, they were about to make history. At the
University of California, Los Angeles, Charley Kline typed
a login sequence at around nine p.m. on October 29, 1969. The command went through
interface
computers built by Cambridge?s BBN Technologies (formerly Bolt, Beranek, and Newman) on
its
way to Kline?s counterpart Bill Duvall, at SRI International (then known as Stanford
Research
Institute) in Menlo Park, California. The first couple of letters came through to the
SRI
machine before the system crashed. The minor setback would be fixed quickly, and the
connection
was fully in place by 10:30 p.m. The very first data had been sent between two nodes of
the
ARPANET, a key precursor to the Internet.
11:14 a.m.
Al Kossow wrote:
Evan Koblentz wrote:
And I have already posted a correction that it was Charley Kline, not
Leonard Kleinrock.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/174667/happy_40th_birthday_internet.html
had the mistake.
12:36 p.m.
On 29 Oct 2009 at 11:14, Al Kossow wrote:
A similar article on the Beeb:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8331253.stm
--Chuck
2:38 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 29 Oct 2009 at 11:14, Al Kossow wrote:
A similar article on the Beeb:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8331253.stm
Kleinrock was also interviewed on CBC Radio yesterday, telling the story of the
Stanford and UCLA machines being connected and the crash after l-o-g was typed in.
He was being touted as the "Father of the Internet" by the interviewer. I have
no wish to detract from Kleinrock's contributions and I haven't looked in depth
into who did exactly what, but putting these monikers on a solitary person is
usually putting one's foot in it.
I just wish these reports would acknowledge that computer networking began over
a decade before this (SAGE,SABRE,etc).
3:22 p.m.
Brent Hilpert wrote:
I just wish these reports would acknowledge that
computer networking began over
a decade before this (SAGE,SABRE,etc).
They are concerning themselves with the ARPANET, which begat TCP/IP, which became
the protocol upon which the interconnected networks (Internet) rely on today.
"Firsts", like standards, are a wonderful thing since there are so many to
choose from.
4:42 p.m.
Al Kossow wrote:
Brent Hilpert wrote:
Yes, you and I and many realise that, just that the lack of precision in
phrasing or reference can leave many others - even those (perhaps younger) with
some background in computers - with some misunderstanding.
I just wish these reports would acknowledge that
computer networking began over
a decade before this (SAGE,SABRE,etc).
They are concerning themselves with the ARPANET, which begat TCP/IP, which became
the protocol upon which the interconnected networks (Internet) rely on today. "Firsts", like standards, are a wonderful
thing since there are so many to choose from.
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