Posted on 10/29/2019 8:08:54 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Tech Ping
I didn’t see Algore or Brian Williams in any of those pictures
And the first Internet Pr0n video was created.
Heeeeyyyyyyy, where’s the picture of Al Gore?
I had to reboot before I could read the entire article.......
HOLD ON!!!! Why do I see no pictures of Al Gore?
“You didn’t build that” BHO
Algore did. AG
post 2— my exact question too.
Too busy in the background claiming they invented it.
a teletype over a phone line is more like morse code on a telegraph line (century old technology) than it is like the modern internet. I suppose if the signal were ‘digital’ then that is the transformative key, but there is a reason that even the guys who did it at the time didn’t make much of it. The concept was not as novel as we view it in hind sight. It’s just like the idea of cell phones was not that crazy. People had been using two way radios and relays for a long time. Again, it’s more about the complexity of how traffic is routed that transformed things, and digital packeting of data is how that was accomplished
By the mid-1960s, ARPA had provided funding for large computers used by researchers in universities and think tanks around the country. The ARPA official in charge of the financing was Bob Taylor, the key figure in computing history who later ran Xerox’s PARC lab. At ARPA, he had become painfully aware that all those computers spoke different languages and couldn’t talk to each other.
Taylor hated the fact that he had to have separate terminals—each with its own leased communication line—to connect with various remote research computers. His office was full of Teletypes.
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Necessity is the mother of the Internet.
My first email address ended in dot arpa. I also had to use some bang paths and relays to send mail outside of ARPANET.
This is untrue. Al Gore grew up in the Fairfax hotel in DC as a child. Wrong room number.
If I recall the story correctly, this first file transfer was using the 'uucp' program, which is still a part of any basic Unix installation. I could well be wrong, and I'm sure some intrepid Freeper will correct the record if so. :-)
It does bring to mind something I did many years ago before we really had decent ways to clone disks across a network though. I needed a clone of a boot disk which existed in Dallas, to be created in California. We could have duplicated the disk locally and mailed it, but didn't want to take the time for that. Instead, we booted the Dallas system from media so the boot disk didn't have anything writing to it. Did the same thing for the target system in CA. Then we executed something very similar to the following...
On the target system:
nc -p 2222 | dd of=/dev/disk1
On the source system:
dd if=/dev/disk1 | nc -p 2222
(I'm quite sure I've forgotten additional switches employed) What that essentially did was use 'dd' (also known as "Disk Destroyer) to copy the boot disk byte by byte across the network using nc (or netcat), which was received by 'nc' on the target system and then written out byte by byte to the disk by 'dd'.
Once completed, we ran 'dd if=/dev/disk1 | cksum' on each system and compared the results to validate that no errors occurred during transmission. Then we mounted the target disk, modified it's network config files, and rebooted the system into service.
It was an elegant solution to the problem IMO that was very satisfying to me as it saved us time, and yet solved the problem. We ended up using that a couple of other times, and only had to restart the process once because of transmission errors.
Yeah, shoulda read the article first. They weren’t talking about actual file transfers. It was just the initial connectivity. Bad zeugma for posting before reading.
The writers of The Rockford Files were onto the dark side of the Web by 1978. In series 4 episode 22 Jackie Cooper is a guy collecting data on Americans from existing data bases for the purpose of having a dossier on everybody and selling the result. Geez, all he had to do was call it Google.
True, I remember using a teletype for weather and news at the radio station I worked for decades ago.
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