The Entire Internet as of 1973

Twitter ^ | Dec 10, 2016 | David Newbury

[Lazamataz]

"Going through old papers my dad gave me, I found his map of the internet as of May 1973.

The entire internet."

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I began my ME studies in '69. I never mastered more than multiplication on the olds slipstick because I always had my trusty Mark's with me:

The Mizzou EE Department had a 360 which we used. The ME Department had an ancient and decrepit Marchant calculator without an instruction manual. It was totally inscrutable:

[Rusty0604]

Cool.

[minnesota_bound]

#38 I bought a Packard Bell Windows 95 pc in Dec 1995.
I cannot imagine being without a computer. I learned how to fix computers because I had a Packard Bell pc : )

[Larry Lucido]

Hey, they’re still around!

http://www.packardbell.com/pb/nl/NL/content/home

[minnesota_bound]

They were once the Dell back then. They messed up with poor products and left the USA for Europe where are still a big company. Now owned by Acer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard_Bell

In my case it was a bad sound card. I did not know it at the time but there was a class action lawsuit over it.

[Fiji Hill]

One of the nodes on the map is labeled "USC-ISI." The University of Southern California, where I was a graduate student in 1973 was fairly conservative and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute probably had a fairly strong presence on campus.

[telstar12.5]

wrote a BASIC ray trace program on the Dartmouth TSS in 1968 while in boarding school.

saved the program on paper tape reader/puncher on the side of the AR-33 teletype.

ancient history now.

[az_gila]

A 1972 list that contains most or all of the acronym “idents” in that chart is here:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc384

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I had to look this one up though...:^)

Terminal Interface Processor = (TIP)

[telstar12.5]

wrote a BASIC ray trace program on the Dartmouth TSS in 1968 while in boarding school.

saved the program on paper tape reader/puncher on the side of the AR-33 teletype.

ancient history now.

[NonValueAdded]

I remember Pam. Still have it in a box somewhere.

[bruin66]

I’ll call yer history and raise with SWAC (at UCLA), APL, JOVIAL, SNOBOL, Bendix G-15, and untold machine/assembly languages.

[Robert A Cook PE]

I’ve been on most of the campus and government sites, but don’t recognize RML and ETAC.

Surprised NASA (JPL, Cape, GISS, or Huntsville) is not there. Ames is there.

[truth_seeker]

Sometime during/soon after 1971 I used a teletype style terminal to use shared mainframe capability (easily learned language like Basic), while working for Signal Oil & Gas Co.

I think the computer was owned by McDonnel Douglas, and was called “Mc-Auto” or something along that line. I think the machine was located in the Bay area.

[Daffynition]

Search *US defense IT systems floppy disks*

305,000 results

I’m not about to argue with you. I choose not to believe you.

Carry on.

[Flash Bazbeaux]

I know what a lot of them stand for. Many are universities, pretty obvious. Some on the “east coast” right side were not. Lincoln was probably a research lab associated with MIT. BBN was “Bolt Berenak and Newman”. MITRE was the MITRE corporation - MIT Research Engineering. PDP 10 and PDP 11 were Digital Equipment Corporation “mini-computers”.

I would be surprised if any were local networks OR “servers”. We’re talking just a few generations removed from two tin cans and a string.

[Flash Bazbeaux]

I know what a lot of them stand for. Many are universities, pretty obvious. Some on the “east coast” right side were not. Lincoln was probably a research lab associated with MIT. BBN was “Bolt Berenak and Newman”. MITRE was the MITRE corporation - MIT Research Engineering. PDP 10 and PDP 11 were Digital Equipment Corporation “mini-computers”. 360 was probably the IBM 360.

I would be surprised if any were local networks OR “servers”. We’re talking just a few generations removed from two tin cans and a string.

[AndyTheBear]

It’s Gore’s fault the Russians had an internet with which to hack the election!

[FreedomPoster]

While it’s nice to have one for nostalgia’s sake, there are smartphone apps that mimic various popular HP calculators. Beats the heck out of carrying two devices for many use cases. And I say this as a guy who heavily used a variety of HP calculators back in the day, including the original iconic HP-41c.

I noticed a commercial real estate professional we work with using an HP-12C financial calculator last week. I showed him my HP-15c app, and that he could get a 12c one and not have to carry two devices. He was going to get one when he went home.

[FreedomPoster]

McAuto was still around in the early 1980s. We used their mainframes to run commercial/industrial/institutional building energy modeling software that the Trane Company licensed, TRACE, TRane Air Conditioning Economic. Not too much later, PCs were able to run TRACE and TRACE-like programs, and using it on the mainframe went the way of the dodo, like many things.

[Lazamataz]

Hey Laz, I’m on your countdown PING list. Now, all I want for Christmas is to be on this list.

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