From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 13:41:11 +1100 (EST)
Subject: [COFF] ARPAnet now 4 nodes
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On Sat, 5 Dec 2020, Noel Chiappa wrote:

> > The ARPAnet reached four nodes on this day in 1969 .. the nodes were 
> > UCSB, UCLA, SRI, and Utah.
>
> Yeah; see the first map here:
>
>  http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/arpageo.html

Yep; I know that first map well :-)  For the newbies here, the ARPAnet was 
the predecessor of the Internet (no, it didn't spring from the brow of 
Zeus, nor Billy Gates), and what we now call "routers" were then IMPs 
(look it up).

> Missing maps gratefully received!

Indeed; history needs to be kept alive, lest it die.

-- Dave