Retro networking / WAN communities

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From: cctech <cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Wayne S via cctech
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 1:24 PM
To: Grant Taylor <cctalk at gtaylor.tnetconsulting.net>
Cc: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: Retro networking / WAN communities

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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> Grant. . . .
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