Retro networking / WAN communities

wrcooke at wrcooke.net wrcooke at wrcooke.net
Tue Apr 12 13:47:28 CDT 2022



> On 04/12/2022 12:42 PM Wayne S via cctech <cctech at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> 
> 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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> 
The first response of "Interface" Message Processor is more correct.  There was a LOT of networking before what we call the "Internet" now.  It derived from the Arpanet in the 60s, which is where the IMPs were used.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET#:~:text=The%20Advanced%20Research%20Projects%20Agency,technical%20foundation%20of%20the%20Internet.
Will


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