A map of the "Internet" in June, 1970. Wow, pretty simple.

Twitter ^ | 28 April 2014 | Cliff Pickover

[Jack Hydrazine]

Hey, look! Utah! That’s where they are building that huge data storage center for the NSA where all conversations will be stored.

[GeronL]

MIT, Harvard, Yale, UCLA?

Weren’t we told the internet was a government thing back then??

[DanielRedfoot]

Where is the link to Al Gore’s house?

[Domestic Church]

I recall logging on through a friend over at Cornell to pull up some bio research in the mid 70s.

[GeronL]

Al Gore must have been putting up the wires or something

[Terry L Smith]

I block any social media, except YouTube, so, I guess I’ll have to remember from my early DoD days.

[GeronL]

Must have taken forever in those days

[eldoradude]

SRI = Stanford Research Institute in Palo Alto.

You would type on a keyboard with printout simultaneously so you could read what you wrote...and then the reply would come in a half minute later or so.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[ReformedBeckite]

Al Gore must have been putting up the wires or something

Al Gore was a busy man back then, just because he invented the Internet doesn't mean he had time to play on it, you all know he had no time to play on the Internet until his work on the big family farm was done, like feeding that huge stock of pigs. (sarcasm)

[PieterCasparzen]

Take a look at who calls the shots for those schools and in the government. It’s all the same.

[Eccl 10:2]

“Where is the link to Al Gore’s house?”

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That would be near Harvard when Erich Segal was writing “Love Story” about him.

[AnAmericanAbroad]

And here I thought I was an ‘old-timer’ because I’ve been using the internet since 1995.

You’re a pioneer!!

[Slyfox]

I see the map includes the line going right through Flint, Michigan. The physics department at Flint Southwestern high school in 1970 used to dial up something, put the phone in a special receiver (modem) and get their “computer” to talk to an IBM computer in another location outside the building. Seemed weird and real tech-y, like they were doing some Star Trek hocus-pocus.

[UB355]

“Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet “ is an interesting book on the origins of the internet

[MarkL]

My first Internet access was back around 1985 or so, using dial-up access from NY to CA through "the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link," The WELL.

I used to be fairly active on the C programming language news group, and I have the distinction of having been told by Dennis Ritchie that I was completely wrong in a post I made! :-)

Mark

[cynwoody]

http://www.computerhistory.org/internet_history/

[tophat9000]

The schools were doing government research. .the point was to interconnected the system to share data.

FYI this is the Internet.... not Arpanet or Milnet..

[Aevery_Freeman]

It was.

I was a programmer at Cheyenne Mountain back then and we had a "multi-path network" covering a good part of the world.

It was part of NORAD.