[Air-l] A definition of the internet

[boffano]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:06:47 -0400, Andrew Russell wrote
> On Oct 17, 2006, at 10:51 AM, Kevin Guidry wrote:
> 
> > But it just seems to me that TCP/IP as the
> > underlying protocol of the majority of the Internet is a historical
> > accident.
> 
> I disagree.  Choices and controversies - not accidents - created the 
>  TCP/IP Internet that we use today.  The work of scholars such as  
> Janet Abbate and Neil Randall (as well as my own work, which is why  
> I'm sensitive on this point :-) describe these choices and 
>  controversies in great detail.  Of course the Internet (like all  
> things) changes over time, and I agree with those who say that the 
>  definitions of the Internet vary according to the perspectives and  
> interests of those who wish to define it.
> 
> Andy Russell
> History of Science and Technology
> Johns Hopkins University
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