Subj : Re: The First Internet Message
To   : tenser
From : Avon
Date : Sun Jan 23 2022 16:18:41

On 15 Jan 2022 at 02:35a, tenser pondered and said...
 
 te> Whoa whoa whoa whoa....  They wrote that?  That's not quite right;
 te> the idea of "packet" switching predates Kleinrock's work, and he's
 te> most famous for the work he's done on queuing theory, which has had
 te> an enormous impact.  He was certainly one of the central players in
 te> the early ARPANet, and he should be recognized and celebrated, but
 te> shame on UCLA for not recognizing him properly.  I'll bet he was
 te> horrified.

No it seemed he was fine with the introduction and if you watch it I think the host repeats some of the text above, I can only assume the museum staff were behind what was written as that's where I got it from :)

 te> A wonderful, easily accessible history of the early ARPANet and
 te> Internet is, "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet"
 te> by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon.  I can't recommend it enough.
 te> Also, if folks haven't seen it, I highly recommend the documentary
 te> "Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing".  It's
 te> amazingly prescient; the folks working on the ARPANET in the late
 te> 1960s and early 1970s really envisioned basically what the Internet
 te> has become, including cloud computing:
 te> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjZ7ktIlSM0
 
Thank you, I'll certainly have a look for these. I enjoy the history and the technical and social details behind it all.

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