--- [email protected] wrote: From: Jeroen Massar <[email protected]>
http://m.sfgate.com/business/article/40-years-on-the-Internet-transmits-every-aspect-9187484.php For the people who like 'our history' ;) ----------------------------------------------- Hmmm, not so sure about sfgate.com's historical data. The internet first said "lo" like in 'lo and belold, I exist', but in reality it was the first three letters of "log". the whole system crashed when they typed the "g". That was 1969: http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu/personal_history.html As far as packet radio (I'm from Hawaii, so I really like this one) Professor Norman Abramson developed ALOHAnet (packet radio) in 1970 at the University of Hawaii, which became the core idea for Robert Metcalfe's CSMA and, thus, Ethernet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_radio#Aloha_and_PRNET One of my favorites is the letter from R.Z. Bachrach: http://b2b.cbsimg.net/blogs/19740305-xerox-ethernet-memo1.jpg Which he clarifies as not what everyone thinks it said: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/1xz13/in_1974_xerox_parc_engineers_invented_ethernet/ All of which was before 1974. scott _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list [email protected] http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list [email protected] http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
