[Air-l] any historians out there?

[Jonathan Sterne]

Hi All,

I was just in the National Archives (U.S.) doing some research that, among 
other things, involved looking at a pile of documents the Department of 
Defense just turned over to the National Archives (Archives II in 
Maryland).  There's a huge mess of stuff in the finding aid, and much of 
the material (including ALL the things I was interested in) will require 
FOIA requests for you to actually see them, BUT there was a TON of material 
on ARPA that had been turned over.  If anyone's doing a 'net history and 
interested in ARPA, I'd strongly recommend a trip to look at the finding 
aid.  The materials aren't, to my knowledge, yet indexed online and the 
finding aid is very rudimentary.  But there appears to be a LOT there.  To 
see the finding aid, you'll need to talk with one of the archivists 
specializing in army and DoD stuff.

Best,,
--J, who recently had a conversation with some other scholars about how the 
internet-as-revolutionary-force was, you guessed it, "so 90s"