@lippard @thedarktangent Astronomy! Of course, I should have thought of that.
And of course Joel knew all the minutiae. He's good that way.
@thedarktangent The second picture (MILNET connections) shows a C/30 IMP (IMP = some kind of router, IIUC) labelled "BRM" in northern Germany.
Was that IMP located in Bremen? If so, I wonder where exactly it was placed.
If this was indeed a MILNET node, I guess it would not be located at the university; so where was that IMP in the real world?
@opalmirror @thedarktangent Ah, the good old days of bang-paths. A few weeks ago I was trying to remember one of mine from ~1990 for a historical article I was working on. I remember it as β<something-at-mit>!mv!srbci!ldyβ, but alas, memory fades after 30+ years!
Very different days of a much smaller netβ¦
@thedarktangent I hate to be that guy, but none of these maps show the Internet. They show a lot of the networks that eventually started using TCP/IP and became part of the Internet, but these maps are mostly from before 1977 when that happened.
The ARPANET maps can be found, free to use, on Archive.org and on several USG/DoD sites. The Baran maps can found on RAND's website.
The USENET maps are really cool, though.
@thedarktangent If some of ICANN's founders heard you say that the ARPANET is the Internet, you'd get an earful. Vint has been very clear that he believes he created the Internet with Bob (Kahn) by creating TCP/IP and that the ARPANET was merely a predecessor.
Never mind that ALOHAnet and ARPANET were connected in 1973, creating the first inter-net, based on NCP.
Also, The Internet was named as such by a woman, Ginny Strasizar, at least on paper.
@thedarktangent ... and you'll find some of those (or near matches) in John S. Quarterman's The Matrix (1990), e.g., the global Usenet map here:
https://archive.org/details/matrixcomputernet00quar/page/236/mode/2up?view=theater
Quarterman was describing computer networks at the time, so doesn't have earlier historical maps for the most part. Though the ones included are pretty epic.
I'd forgotten that book. I wonder where my copy went?
Probably didn't survive the fire that started in my office. I was also fond (from a historical perspective) of the two books I had that told you nothing but how to send email from one network to another.
@thedarktangent the arpanet is fascinating, and for those who don't know the numbered "RFC" documents were originally written as request for comment notes from arpanet planning meetings. The #365rfcs blog series does a really great job of making reading these #RFCs sequentially fascinating as they track the design and implementation of #ARPANet:
@thedarktangent the first picture is from Paul Baran's 1962 paper "On Distributed Communication Networks", the seminal paper on packet switched networking
https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs244/papers/DistributedCommunicationsNetworks.pdf
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