50 yrs. ago today

[Fred Cisin]

> On 10/29/19 5:50 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. via cctalk wrote:
>> The ARPAnet was a WAN (wide area network) and not an Internet, but it
>> was one of the three networks involved in that first test on November
>> 22, 1977 (after a two network test the previous year). The option to use
>> TCP/IP in addition to the native NCP became popular on the ARPAnet to
>> the point that NCP was turned off in 1983. It was hardly the only
>> network to get assimilated into the Internet, but it was the one with
>> the most impact. That makes the 50th anniversary of the first ARPAnet
>> packet an important milestone in Internet pre-history.
>
On Tue, 29 Oct 2019, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> Doesn't AUTODIN precede ARPAnet by a few years?

How did Licklider's "Intergalactic Network" fit in?


And, was that a factor in Gary Kildall's choosing the name "Intergalactic 
Digital Research"?


Or, was everything beyond what was current called "intergalactic"?