[LINK] Map of the Internet, May 1973

[David Lochrin]

On 13/12/2016 17:10, Stephen Loosley wrote:
> A Map of the Internet, May 1973
> 
> https://twitter.com/workergnome/status/807704855276122114

Well the U.S. Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency network was an early forerunner of the Internet.  Other organisations also developed their own large networks for their own purposes (notably the DEC global network), and some of these evolved further through integration (e.g. airline networks).  But the Internet as the common user data network we know now didn't happen for another ~20 years.

Tim Berners-Lee's original CERN browser appeared in the early 90's - see http://info.cern.ch/NextBrowser.html  Windows 3.1 appeared at the same time, and I remember showing a certain library-person how I could access a library index at the University of West Virginia (?) set up for demonstration purposes.  "What's the use of being able to access a library there?" she asked.

But thanks for the link, I had a good wallow in reminiscence.  All those PDP-series computers, the IBM 360-series, the Burroughs B6700 with its very purist stack-based architecture, Honeywell H316 minis...

David L.