On Mar 1, 2010, at 9:25 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:42:15 +0100, Arjan van der Oest said: > >>> (considering the fact that governments themselves are not capable of >>> running anything but a gray-cheese-with-a-dial telephone network >> >> Hm, I was under the impression that ARPANET was a government run >> network... > > And let's face it - the Arpa/Milnet was a test network, not a production > network.
It may have started as a research network, but was very much used for production activities by late 70's and early 80's. --Ron (Site coordinator for Arpanet IMP #3)
