[IP] more on 35th Anniversary of the Internet

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
Date: October 4, 2004 3:52:49 PM EDT
To: dave@farber.net
Cc: shoch@alloyventures.com
Subject: Re: [IP] more on 35th Anniversary of the Internet

For better or worse, many of the formats, protocols, and other features 
of today's Internet are direct-line descendants of systems, protocols, 
and decisions that date from the ARPANET era (e.g. e-mail, file 
transfer, and numerous others) -- in some cases largely unchanged from 
their early forms.  One result of this has been problems (such as spam) 
that we did not foresee back in those early days, when mass access to 
the Network of the sort we have now would have been viewed as 
improbable science fiction.

The historical and technical linkages between ARPANET and Internet are 
very tight indeed.

--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
lauren@pfir.org or lauren@vortex.com or lauren@privacyforum.org
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
http://www.pfir.org/lauren
Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - 
http://www.pfir.org
Co-Founder, Fact Squad - http://www.factsquad.org
Co-Founder, URIICA - Union for Representative International Internet
                     Cooperation and Analysis - http://www.uriica.org
Moderator, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com
Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://www.vortex.com/lauren-blog


> ...... Forwarded Message .......
> From: John Shoch <shoch@alloyventures.com>
> To: dave@farber.net
> Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 07:52:22 -0700
> Subj: RE: [IP] 35th Anniversary of the Internet (well the start of the 
> Arpanet anyway djf)
> Dave,
> There was a lot of great work done on both the Arpanet (packet 
> switching) and the Internet (internetworking), and lots of people 
> deserve credit.
> But the packets in 1969 were not internet packets, had no internet 
> addressing, could not have been forwarded to a different network, 
> etc., etc.
> This is rather like dating television back to Marconi -- a stretch.

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