[Air-l] ARPAnet history question

[Janna Anderson]

Reference "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet" by Katie
Hafner, an excellent history. Also see an associated site:

http://www.chick.net/wizards/

Janna Anderson
Elon University


On 8/29/06 1:31 PM, "elw at stderr.org" <elw at stderr.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> almost certainly - those early connections were very likely serial;
> ethernet had not been invented just yet.
> 
> --elijah
> 
> 
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Bunz, Ulla wrote:
> 
>> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:50:49 -0400
>> From: "Bunz, Ulla" <Ulla.Bunz at comm.fsu.edu>
>> Reply-To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>> Subject: [Air-l] ARPAnet history question
>> 
>> When ARPAnet connected the four universities in 1969, were there only
>> actually four computers connected to each other? If not, does anyone
>> know how many? A source (not Wikipedia or your personal memory) for this
>> information would be much appreciated.
>> Thanks,
>> Ulla
>> 
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