Subj : Re: The First Internet Message
To   : Avon
From : tenser
Date : Mon Jan 24 2022 05:48:56

On 23 Jan 2022 at 04:18p, Avon pondered and said...
 
 Av> On 15 Jan 2022 at 02:35a, tenser pondered and said...
 Av>  
 Av>  te> Whoa whoa whoa whoa....  They wrote that?  That's not quite right;
 Av>  te> the idea of "packet" switching predates Kleinrock's work, and he's
 Av>  te> most famous for the work he's done on queuing theory, which has had
 Av>  te> an enormous impact.  He was certainly one of the central players in
 Av>  te> the early ARPANet, and he should be recognized and celebrated, but
 Av>  te> shame on UCLA for not recognizing him properly.  I'll bet he was
 Av>  te> horrified.
 Av> 
 Av> No it seemed he was fine with the introduction and if you watch it I
 Av> think the host repeats some of the text above, I can only assume the
 Av> museum staff were behind what was written as that's where I got it from
 Av> :)

I imagine he'd be too gracious to correct them on the spot. :-)

He was certainly there; don't get me wrong.  But the concept
of packet switching came from a group of folks.  Paul Baran
(in the US) and Donald Davies (in the UK) are arguably more
central to the concept.

The IMP at Kleinrock's lab at UCLA connected to the SRI IMP
was the first permanent ARPANET link, of course.  It's hard
to overstate Kleinrock's role, but to call him the inventor
of packet switching is definitely a stretch.

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