Retro networking / WAN communities

[Wayne S]

Thanks for the info about IMP.
But now i’d have to question IMP routers being around in 1970 since the internet wasn’t around yet. 


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> Subject: Re: Retro networking / WAN communities
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> What’s an IMP? Don’t know that acronym.
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>>> On Apr 12, 2022, at 10:20, Grant Taylor <cctalk at gtaylor.tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
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>>> On 4/12/22 10:11 AM, Wayne S wrote:
>>> Wiki says ethernet became commercially available in 1980 and invented in 1973. So if enet was 1980 what were routers routing 10 years earlier in 1970?
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>> I feel like IMPs were "routing" and could be considered "routers" long before Ethernet was a thing.
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