I'd have to agree with Dave on this. (BBN was also famous for its "Butterfly" super computer).
My first fulltime connection to the Internet was 1982. More accurately was a part "legitimate" DARPA connection and a predominance of "underground" uucp (Unix to Unix Communication Protocol) connections.
Back then, pre World Wide Web, in the space of a couple of hours you could read virtually everything that was posted to the Internet that day.
/Ed
Dave Tutelman wrote:
At 10:39 PM 11/16/03 -0800, Corey Bailey wrote:
Southern California, being the object of so many jokes, is the only place I can think of in the lower 48 where, in the Winter, you can ski in the morning and surf (the ocean) in the afternoon.
Absolutely true!
Same goes for the Internet actually, it was invented and implemented here.
I thought it was invented in Tennessee. Oh no, that was Al Gore, and he's FROM Tennessee.
Seriously though, I'd love to hear about data supporting the contention that the Internet was invented and implemented in southern California. In the absence of such evidence, I'd have to say that it was conceived in Washington (Larry Roberts, the head of DARPA) and invented/implemented mostly in Massachussetts (Bolt Beranek & Newman were the prime contractors and implementers). There were certainly a lot of individual participants from academia, and a couple of those were from UCLA. But hardly enough to support your claim. (Still true even if you include northern California and pick up Berkeley.)
Cheers! DaveT
