The entire internet."
Posted on 12/18/2016 6:21:56 PM PST by Lazamataz
"Going through old papers my dad gave me, I found his map of the internet as of May 1973.
The entire internet."
I remember in a couple of episodes of the original Star Trek, they mention computer tapes. I guess they had no idea what else they would be in the future.
Al Gore is an ass.
Ah, reading for comprehension. I remember my dad bringing home one of the first telefaxes. And also “computer images” made from characters, sent over teletype machines.
I’m in IT. I think I’m going to put this up in my office as a conversation starter.
Do you know what all the abbreviations stand for? Are the ovals individual servers or local networks?
It’s very cool. Thanks for posting.
I went to CWRU - I assume that’s what CASE in the diagram represents?
Your phone has several thousand times its memory.
Where are the dragons???
In a few decades, they will scoff at our modern Star Trek mentioning ‘computers’.
“Ha! That was before we bioengineered everyone to have superintelligence!”
I don’t recall this in Love Story but maybe you’re onto something. :)
That is cool!
(Probably should have copyrighted it though.)
I’ve got an earlier version of this map from April 1972 (as well as MAY ‘73 and JAN ‘74), but don’t know how to post it on the internet.
In 1987 we were living in Mexico City and paying our state-side bills by a dial-up service to our bank. We were using a Kaypro Lunchbox computer at the time. Not quite Internet, but pretty darn close. We also had an IBM mini-laptop that ran MS Windows on 8 megs of RAM. That was back in 1991, 1992 or some such. Dinosaur.
It ain’t mine. I found it somewhere on the internet.
There were other things besides ARPA at that time. I remember using the Dartmouth Time Sharing System (DTSS) before 1974 to generate “emails”. I would write a series of BASIC print statements which would then be executed anywhere on the DTSS system. I used it to transfer data between Arizona and Michigan. There was also the University of Minnesota gopher (go fer) system preceding HTML. That may have been after 1974, though.
I bet it was full of cat and porno videos even back then!!!! Smile smile smile
I can help you post it. Freepmail me. We’ll work together on it tomorrow.
The Fed is 75 years behind the times, and they're working 2 days a week to catch up.
I remember when my boss got the first home computer I had ever seen. He brought us all to his house to see it. I said, what good is it? What can you do with it? He said, I got a dictionary on it. And a cookbook. I said, I’ve got a dictionary, why do I need a computer?
I hate to say it, it was quite a few years before I saw the light. My work was eventually, like most peoples’ work, highly computerized eventually. But at that time, whatever you could do with a computer, I could do faster by hand. It was a long time before I finally broke down and got my first one. And later still before I finally figured out what that new-fangled “internet” was good for.
DEC. A once great company that never fully understood the idea of the personal computer. It would contribute to its demise.
Ironic that the early PC OS was developed on a PDP - PER Paul Allen.
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