From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Sat May 04 2002 - 12:42:52 MDT
On Saturday, May 4, 2002, at 01:18 pm, Terry W. Colvin wrote:
> Been doing this stuff since 1964 (USAF beginnings); worked at
> TYMSHARE/TYMNET
> in the 70's where we invented all the PIECES for the Internet, linking
> our own
> hundreds of host computers to the DARPANET and ARPANET and other neat-o
> spook
> networks with 22,000 simultaneous users online in 1973 to 325 different
> hosts
> machines on multiple continents in an environment pre-PC, pre-Novell,
> pre-Minicomputer, pre-FloppyDisk ! First Trans-Atlantic Sattelite
> Circuit in a Commercial Network - 3.5 seconds up and down to Europe,
> then 3.5
> seconds echo time for full duplex. . .
Darpanet and Arpanet were indead neat-o spook networks. Although we
retroactively call these the "Internet", they originally didn't use the
Internet Protocol, and were limited to military usage and subcontractors
or universities that were helping develop military technology.
> By the way, just to confirm what everyone knows, Al Gore wasn't there
> either
Actually, Al Gore WAS there when I worked on Darpanet/Arpanet. He wrote
the bill that funded NSFnet and initiated the expansion of the military
network into the commercial and private sectors. At the time, this move
was opposed by intellectual elitists at the universities and by military
brass in the defense sector. Many predicted the end of the network due
to public access. The internet ceased being a small private network,
and was quickly linked to public networks all over the world. Nowadays,
we think public access to the Internet is a good thing, and we're glad
that the Internet was opened to the public.
Of course, to Al Gore and other congressmen, their funding and authority
"creates" the institution at the time they pass the bill, and they take
credit for the many years of technical work that made that even possible.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> Principal Security Consultant <www.Newstaff.com>
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