Retro networking / WAN communities

[Paul Koning]

> On Apr 12, 2022, at 1:20 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> 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?
> 
> I feel like IMPs were "routing" and could be considered "routers" long before Ethernet was a thing.

Exactly.  For that matter, DECnet included routing before Ethernet came out (in Phase III, with DDCMP links).  And Typeset-11 did routing before DECnet did, starting around 1977.

I think the term used in the IMP days was "gateway" but by today's terminology they are routers.

	paul