[COFF] ARPAnet now 4 nodes

[gingell at computer.org (Rob Gingell)]

On 12/5/2019 11:05 AM, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 10:20:06AM -0800, Rob Gingell wrote:
>> One decent concise accounting is at
>> https://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/
> 
> That seems to list the 1st 4 and then none?  Or did I miss it?

There's another list of the membership (but not the addresses) under 
1971 but the descriptions peter out after that.

I was doing some digging for old HOSTS.TXT files, one of which would 
give a roughly chronological order, and a sequence of which would allow 
for reconstructing the history, but didn't come up with anything.

Well, I did find one file from 1973 that seemed to have the information 
but the trouble is that file was a document scan that stopped after the 
first page.

Once internetworking experiments started there were sequences of 
"assigned number" RFCs that showed the evolution of internetworking and 
component networks but I came up empty looking for just the plain old 
HOSTS.TXT files.

>> A collection of maps of the ARPAnet over time is available from the Computer
>> History Museum at
>> https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102646704
> 
> Too blurry to read the names.

Admittedly a couple of the maps are hard to process even with zooming in 
but a lot of them are very readable even to my old eyes. And yeah, they 
don't answer the history question except by inference through visual 
comparison. Just couldn't find anything better.