Ars Technica is doing a three-part series on the history of the internet; here’s part one, which covers ARPANET, IMPs, TCP/IP, RFCs, DNS, CompuServe, etc. “It was the first time that autocomplete had ruined someone’s day.”
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Jeremy Reimer was an active presence in the I, Cringely forums over the last decade or so and it was fun to follow him try to substantiate/debunk some of Mark Stephens' increasingly wild claims and schemes over that time. Looking forward to reading this. Thanks
In the diagram of ARPAnet from 1977, at the upper left, there's a PDP-11 labeled "LLL" and that was my dad at Lawrence Livermore Lab
I still have a CompuServe account…
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