John Hasler wrote:
I wrote:
Actually, it's the original peer to peer network.
Mike McCarty writes:
Hardly "the original". Just like the rest of the internet, it grew out of
the DARPA net.
Usenet developed entirely independently of ARPANet and is truly
decentralized.
Hmm, from http://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag/node256.html
Usenet History
The idea of network news was born in 1979 when two graduate students,
Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis, thought of using UUCP to connect machines
for the purpose of information exchange among users. They set up a small
network of three machines in North Carolina.
So, it appears you are correct and I was wrong in the attribution
to DARPA.
OTOH, as is also clear from what is there, it was based on uucp,
which presumes that some sort of network already exists, which
was actually my point. Networked computers have been around since
the early 1960s at least.
Mike
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