From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Subject: ARPANET Information Brochure (December 1985)
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 08:57:15 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171017125715.5F50818C0C3@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)
> From: Larry McVoy
>>> I was told, by someone that I don't remember, that uwisc was the 11th
>>> node on the net. ... If anyone can confirm or deny that I'd love to know.
> I dunno.
I don't have any axe to grind here. I don't care if they were the first, or
the last. You asked "If anyone can confirm or deny that I'd love to know",
and all I'm trying to do is _accurately_ answer that.
> That 1985 map has uwisc in there
I have a large collection of ARPANET maps here:
http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/arpanet.html
and the first one on which UWisc shows up is the October, 1981 geographical
map - over ten years since the ARPANet went up (December, 1969 is the earliest
map I have there).
> I do know that prior to the net there was uucp
Which "net" are we talking about here? ARPANET? CSNET? Internet? The UUCP network
long post-dated the ARPANET - I think it was started in the late 70's, no?
The earliest Internet map I have is from 1982, here:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Internet_map_in_February_82.png
and again UWisc is not on it. (Yes, I know it's on Wikipedia, but I'm the one
who uploaded it, so I can verify it.)
CSNET I don't know much about, that may have been what the comment referred
to.
Wikipedia (for what little we can trust it) says "By 1981, three sites were
connected: University of Delaware, Princeton University, and Purdue
University"; since Lawrence Landweber at UWis was the main driver of CSNET, I
doubt it would have been far behind.
Noel
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-17 12:57 Noel Chiappa [this message]
2017-10-17 14:32 ` Larry McVoy
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2017-10-17 13:01 Noel Chiappa
2017-10-17 0:44 Noel Chiappa
2017-10-17 2:00 ` Larry McVoy
2017-10-16 15:09 Michael-John Turner
2017-10-16 15:35 ` Don Hopkins
2017-10-16 15:38 ` Don Hopkins
2017-10-16 16:09 ` Clem Cole
2017-10-16 16:44 ` Don Hopkins
2017-10-17 0:34 ` Grant Taylor
2017-10-17 18:33 ` Ron Natalie
2017-10-17 0:27 ` Larry McVoy
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