<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks Charles for sharing all this. </div><div><br></div><div>It reminded me of Licklider & Taylor's seminal paper: <a href="https://internetat50.com/references/Licklider_Taylor_The-Computer-As-A-Communications-Device.pdf">https://internetat50.com/references/Licklider_Taylor_The-Computer-As-A-Communications-Device.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>Fondly, Peter </div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><table style="margin:1em 0px;border:medium;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:16px;line-height:inherit;font-family:sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);padding:0px 1em 0px 0px!important"><tbody style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><td style="padding:0px;border:medium;font-style:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1em;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;text-align:center"><a href="http://www.wiu.edu/" style="color:rgb(102,51,153);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.wiu.edu/vpas/signature/images/blockW.png" alt="email graphic" style="margin:0px;padding:6px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;max-width:100%;height:auto"></a></td><td style="padding:0px 1em;font-style:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1em;line-height:24px;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:top;border:medium!important"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,51,153)"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Peter Joseph Gloviczki, Ph.D.<br></strong>Professor  <br></span>School of Communication and Media<br>Western Illinois University<br>1 University Circle, Macomb, IL 61455<br>Schedule a meeting via Calendly: <br><a href="https://calendly.com/pj-gloviczki/30min" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small" target="_blank">https://calendly.com/pj-gloviczki/30min</a><br></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Apr 26, 2026 at 4:52 AM Charles Melvin Ess via Air-L <<a href="mailto:air-l@listserv.aoir.org">air-l@listserv.aoir.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi AoIRists,<br>
<br>
As I mentioned in an earlier note to Morten Bay, there is an active <br>
project to recreate the ARPANET from ca. 1972. You can see the update here:<br>
<br>
<<a href="https://obsolescence.dev/arpanet_home" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://obsolescence.dev/arpanet_home</a>><br>
<br>
Including the chance to log in yourself to one of the now 35 working nodes.<br>
<br>
One of the documents referenced here is titled<br>
<br>
SCENARIOS for using the ARPANET at the INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON <br>
COMPUTER COMMUNICATION, Washington, D.C., October 24-26, 1972<br>
<br>
and is in fact reproduced in the pages giving further instructions on <br>
logging in - along with 2026 scenarios that might also be fun to play with.<br>
<br>
One of the available programs from the <a href="http://MIT.AI" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">MIT.AI</a> node is:<br>
==<br>
DOCTOR is a LISP program written by Joseph Weizenbaum and described in <br>
"ELIZA - A Computer Program For the Study of Natural Language <br>
Communication Between Man And Machine" in the Communications of the ACM, <br>
January 1966.<br>
DOCTOR simulates a psychiatric interview with a Rogerian psychotherapist.<br>
==<br>
(I'll come back to this below.)<br>
<br>
I know that ARPANET is central to the work of e.g.,Janet Abbate's early <br>
history, _Inventing the Internet_ (1999).<br>
But what I'm asking here, especially of historians who know these <br>
domains far better than I:<br>
1) how far did these early exchanges, so far as they could be followed <br>
and/or documented - and/or, as at least some study of primary aims, <br>
practices, affordances, etc. might have been possible - enter into early <br>
research on CMC?<br>
2) Might this reconstruction project, insofar as it grants access to <br>
"the rest of us," be of possible use / interest for historical / current <br>
research on CMC and its descendants?<br>
E.g., I know a great deal has been written about ELIZA - but, to my <br>
knowledge at least, not with direct access to the working program <br>
itself. I suspect the working program would give researchers a chance to <br>
not only become much more familiar with how the program works and <br>
"behaves," but also to try out hypotheses as to how different sorts of <br>
engagements, expectations, etc. might be dis/confirmed through actually <br>
using it?<br>
<br>
In any case, to quote the welcome message from the first terminal I <br>
tried: Happy Hacking!<br>
<br>
- charles<br>
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