[HN Gopher] The Novelty of the Arpanet
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       The Novelty of the Arpanet
        
       Author : xk3
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2025-06-30 22:48 UTC (4 days ago)
        
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       | coderatlarge wrote:
       | " The second of these scenarios featured a piece of software
       | called the SRI-ARC Online System being developed at Stanford.
       | This was a fancy piece of software with lots of functionality (it
       | was the software system that Douglas Engelbart demoed in the
       | "Mother of All Demos"), but one of the many things it could do
       | was make use of what was essentially a file hosting service run
       | on the host at UC Santa Barbara. From a terminal at the
       | Washington Hilton, conference attendees could copy a file created
       | at Stanford onto the host at UCSB simply by running a copy
       | command and answering a few of the computer's questions: "
       | 
       | ii reminds me of typing .. at a / prompt on an AFS connected
       | system and realizing there was more to see above my local system.
        
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