BS: 40 years ago today Lo and Behold

Subject: BS: 40 years ago today Lo and Behold
From: number 6
Date: 29 Oct 09 - 11:06 AM

birth of the internet


wow !


biLL

Subject: RE: BS: 40 years ago today Lo and Behold
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Oct 09 - 11:12 AM

Well, lo and behold, indeed! Neat!

Subject: RE: BS: 40 years ago today Lo and Behold
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Oct 09 - 11:19 AM

Ridiculous! We all know that Al Gore invented the internet and got a Nobel Prize for it.






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Subject: RE: BS: 40 years ago today Lo and Behold
From: number 6
Date: 29 Oct 09 - 11:23 AM

good one !

Subject: RE: BS: 40 years ago today Lo and Behold
From: GUEST,Edthefolkie
Date: 29 Oct 09 - 11:27 AM

Good article in The Guardian (UK) the other day:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/23/internet-40-history-arpanet

I first corresponded over a network somewhere around 1973 - between Croydon and South Wales, using a Burroughs B6500, the Post Office network, and a TC500 terminal at each end. This wasn't strictly e-mail but I'm still quite chuffed as Croydon isn't exactly Silicon Valley.

And what did we say - naturally, "what's the weather like down there Taff?" "Oh, p*ssing it down". "You on overtime?" "Yeah". Not exactly "What God Hath Wrought".

Subject: RE: BS: 40 years ago today Lo and Behold
From: Mrrzy
Date: 29 Oct 09 - 02:02 PM

Stay there, Watson, I need you!

Subject: RE: BS: 40 years ago today Lo and Behold
From: Rasener
Date: 29 Oct 09 - 02:14 PM

So it was Leonard Kleinrock's fault. The bounder.

Subject: RE: BS: 40 years ago today Lo and Behold
From: open mike
Date: 29 Oct 09 - 02:14 PM

What hath God wrought? First Telegraphic Message, May 24, 1844.
Samuel F. B. Morse...from the B&O's Mount Clare Station in
Baltimore to the Capitol Building in Washington.


Alexander Graham Bell's first words over the telephone:
Speaking through the instrument to his assistant,
Thomas A. Watson, in the next room, Bell said,
"Mr. Watson -- come here -- I want to see you."

and the first computer message:
And frankly, all we wanted to do was log in -- to type an l-o-g, and the remote time-sharing system knows what you're trying to do.

So we typed the "l," and we asked over the phone, "Did you get the 'l?' " And the response came back, "Yep, we got the 'l.' " We typed the "o." "Got the 'o?' " " 'Yep, got the 'o.' " Typed the 'g.' "You get the 'g?' " Crash! SRI's host crashed at that point. So the very first message ever on the Internet was the very simple, very prophetic "lo," as in lo and behold.

"on New Year's Day 1994....there were an estimated 623 websites"

I remember hearing that some of the history of the internet stemmed from a military communication system....

the arrival of the internet in the shape we know it today was never a matter of inevitability. It was a crucial idiosyncracy of the Arpanet that its funding came from the American defence establishment...the
Arpanet took it's name from Arpa, the Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Subject: RE: BS: 40 years ago today Lo and Behold
From: number 6
Date: 29 Oct 09 - 03:04 PM

Great post Open Mike.

I remember hearing that ... (back in the mid 1990's) the internet was originally developed (as it is today) for military purposes.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: 40 years ago today Lo and Behold
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 30 Oct 09 - 11:45 AM

Well, if not for the internet we wouldn't be communicating with each other, most of us. Look at all the people we now have frequent intercourse with...keyboard that is.

Subject: RE: BS: 40 years ago today Lo and Behold
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 31 Oct 09 - 05:20 AM

Here's another thread regarding the birthday of the internet ... some info in it that might be of interest.

lo and behold


biLL

Subject: RE: BS: 40 years ago today Lo and Behold
From: GUEST,Mr Red
Date: 31 Oct 09 - 06:50 AM

As a young Electronic Engineer reading magazines like "Electronics" (published in the USA) I well remember the proposal of distributed network over phone lines by ARPA (then DARPA the D stood for Defense (sic)). The avowed benefits were that no one "hit" could prevent it being used. Strange that we have "improved it" to the point that most data goes through a small number of super-conduits, damage to any one overloads the rest of the system to the point of non-function in places and severe lack of function world-wide. And spam was not even a twinkle in a miscreant's eye.

I would be pretty sure that what was reported as "proposed" would have been actuality by then. We used it sometime in the mid-70's to search for papers on lasers - we were measuring deflection for weighing machine designs. I was not part of that project and could only look on as the password was typed in and the thermal printer moved back to obliterate it.