From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: gingell at computer.org (Rob Gingell) Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2019 12:41:29 -0800 Subject: [COFF] ARPAnet now 4 nodes In-Reply-To: <20191205190528.GT32688@mcvoy.com> References: <20191205041940.GP32688@mcvoy.com> <29ffe051-066c-7675-f7cc-5356b17c34de@computer.org> <20191205190528.GT32688@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: 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.