A reconstruction of the ARPAnet by @larsbrinkhoff running some of the original PDP10 OSes and an IMP simulator. Fascinating!
https://obsolescence.dev/obsolescence-newsletter-jul-2025.html#c3
A reconstruction of the ARPAnet by @larsbrinkhoff running some of the original PDP10 OSes and an IMP simulator. Fascinating!
https://obsolescence.dev/obsolescence-newsletter-jul-2025.html#c3
Excellent book: "The Dream Machine - J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal" by Waldrop (2001)
Both an excellent biography of Licklider and a history of the key people and technologies, especially the Arpanet, that got us to today.
#nowPlaying this first track is time capsule
wireless internet – #arpanet
https://arpanet.bandcamp.com/album/wireless-internet #electro
The Computer Chronicles - The Internet (1993)
https://youtu.be/U_o8gerare0?feature=shared
#internet #web #www #worldwideweb #ARPA #arpanet #gopher #finger #ftp #telnet #irc #bulletinboards #bbs #computers #computing #history #oldcomputers #oldcomputing #retro #vintage #tech #thecomputerchronicles
Ars Technica: An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1. “In a very real sense, the Internet, this marvelous worldwide digital communications network that you’re using right now, was created because one man was annoyed at having too many computer terminals in his office.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/16/ars-technica-an-ars-technica-history-of-the-internet-part-1/
The #fediverse will be to #EUPANET what TCP/IP was to the #ARPANET.
In den 90er Jahren betrieb ich die #InfoLineBBS im #arpanet. Damals gab es schon eine #netiquette - Diese gilt auch hier bei #mastodon - Auch hier gilt „Do not feed the Troll“. Keine Reaktion auf dumme inhaltslose Kommentare! Und schon gar nicht auf politisch motivierte Propaganda (egal ob von Rechtsaußen oder Linksaußen). #meinungsfreiheit ja. #reaktionspflicht nein!
Debunking the Nuclear Myth: The True Origins of the Internet
For decades, a pervasive myth has suggested that the internet was designed to survive a nuclear attack. However, the truth is far less dramatic and rooted in the collaborative spirit of academia rathe...
https://news.lavx.hu/article/debunking-the-nuclear-myth-the-true-origins-of-the-internet
"[T]o mark Professor Kirsten’s contributions we are delighted to be able to publish his reflections on the challenges he faced connecting the UK in the early 1970s to the forerunner of what would become the modern internet. The article was edited by Michael with oversight kindly provided by Professor Jon Crowcroft, a colleague of Professor Kirstein’s."
From Arpanet to the Internet: The Untold Story of Britain's First Connection
In the 1970s, a pioneering effort led by Professor Peter Kirstein connected the UK to Arpanet, the precursor to the modern internet. This groundbreaking achievement not only introduced the first passw...
How the UK was connected to the Internet for the first time - The Internet has become the most prevalent communications technology the w... - https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/01/how-the-uk-was-connected-to-the-internet-for-the-first-time/ #classiccomputing #vintagecomputing #syndication #culture #arpanet #biz&it
I have now repeatedly heard the claim that #ADVENT was spread over #ARPANET. I'm pretty sure that this is a modern misconception since bandwidth was so limited in the 70s that 100s of kilobytes or even megabytes surely couldn't just be transferred at will.
Can anyone shed more light on this? A proof one way or the other?
Hey @gutenberg_org,
Just curious, what did the first decade of PG look like?
Was there a BBS, or was it limited to stuff on the #ARPANet and university networks?
The Wikipedia article had a few details, but not a lot before the 90s.
ironically, a project for #decentralized hardiness in the event of a #nuclear attack
and now, via #socialmedia, it is more dangerous than the #nukes
Finally got around to adding an avatar to my Mastodon account. This is one of the terminals connected to an IBM System/360 used for the Culler-Fried On Line System at UCSB in 1966. The Culler-Fried system was an interactive graphical mathematics system and was used there for computer-aided instruction. Culler's work at UCSB led to them being selected as one of the initial four nodes forming the ARPANET in 1969.