On Sun, 22 May 2011, D and N wrote:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Although the *history of the Internet* arguably begins in the 19th
century with the invention of the telegraph
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraph> system, the modern history of
the Internet starts in the 1950s and 1960s with the development of
computers <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer>....
Hmm. Not that it matters greatly, but that article rather neglects the
contribution of the physics community, and HEPNET (High Energy Physics
Net). It didn't have a large footprint, but it was the source of a
disproportionate amount of supporting software, such as the www.
http://198.128.3.112/98ProgramPlan/history.html
-Pete
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