[Air-l] "network of networks" - origin of

[Laurent Straskraba]

That's very interesting. Thanks for the reference.

Actually, I thought it was going back to Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn but 1973 
was the year, no doubt. While talking about origin, I remember Joseph C.R. 
Licklider's (ARPA) concept of a "Galactic Network" going back to the early 
1960s when also ideas of sociocybernetics came up - much influenced by 
Norbert Wiener who wrote his book about Cybernetics in 1948 (!).

Best,
Laurent

At 21:16 20.03.2005, you wrote:
>In a recent post, Neil Randall referred to the internet as a "network of
>networks."
>
>In case anyone is interested, Paul Craven and I invented that term in our
>1973 article "The Network City." (in _Sociological Inquiry_ 43 (Winter):
>57-88. [Reprinted in _The Community_, edited by Marcia Effrat. New York:
>Free Press, 1974.]
>
>Way back then, we were referring to social networks, but the concept was
>the same as was later ported over to the internet (or independently
>re-invented).
>
>In short, we claim terminological priority!
>  Barry
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