On 10/22/2015 7:54 PM, Murray McCullough wrote: > 43 years ago around this time the Internet we use to communicate with > was probably made possible because of TCP/IP, or Transmission Control > Protocol/Internet Protocol created at Stanford University. Today 3 > billion people are on the net but really made it possible for this > extravagant number was the microcomputer created at around the same > time – the Micral in France and 4004 processor machines in the U.S. > Our hobby supported through this web site keeps this history alive. > Hurrah! > > Happy computing. > > Murray :) > > PS This week marks the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s Theory of > General Relativity though published in 1916 according to Wikipedia. >
Your account of the Internet and TCP/IP conflicts *significantly* with several published accounts of the history of the Internet that used quite reliable sources (many of them still living). Some suggested reading: The Dream Machine. J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal. M. Mitchell Waldrop, Penguin where wizards stay up late: the origins of the internet katie hafner, matthew lyon, Simon & Schuster Both very enjoyable reads.
