Internet history (was: We need a better Internet)

David Hardy belovedbold357 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 7 14:13:35 EDT 2010


*And let's not forget EasyNET, people, at DEC, back in the glorious '90s.  *

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Benjamin Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
> > Actually ARPANET, while a DOD sponsored network, was a way to connect
> > universities so they could share research. I'm over generalizing, but it
> > wasn't strictly an internal military thing.
>
>  Right, I didn't mean ARPANET was used by DoD only, I meant it was
> under their "jurisdiction".  IIRC, ARPANET was later split into MILNET
> (which *was* DoD only) and NSFNET, or something like that.
>
> -- Ben
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