[Lazamataz]

Come on. This 1973-era fad will go nowhere. Who would want to connect their computer to anything??? What possible benefit could you get from that??? Besides, how many people will be able to afford one of those room-sized computers???!?

[JoanVarga]

Pretty cool, Laz.

[TruthWillWin]

Al Gores notes?

[KC_Lion]

[Lazamataz]

Something very interesting. Worth a ping to you all. :)

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[BobL]

GIVE IT UP - this thing will be loaded up with FAKE NEWS if it ever gets into the public domain.

[xp38]

Which one represents Al Gore?

[ealgeone]

Can’t be...where’s the Russian hack???

[freedumb2003]

BITNET was almost parallel.

It was so College Professors could work on thesis together easier.

I had an email account in 1985 (PROFS).

[Nifster]

Perfect...I was using the Ames connection to play star trek game with folks at Princeton......we had 300 baud we were so excited

[sauropod]

ENIAC used to be housed in the building where I work.

[LostInBayport]

Which one is FR?

[NobleFree]

Which three weren't porn?

[yarddog]

I remember in a couple of episodes of the original Star Trek, they mention computer tapes. I guess they had no idea what else they would be in the future.

[chrisser]

I’m in IT. I think I’m going to put this up in my office as a conversation starter.

Do you know what all the abbreviations stand for? Are the ovals individual servers or local networks?

It’s very cool. Thanks for posting.

I went to CWRU - I assume that’s what CASE in the diagram represents?

[JohnBrowdie]

blast from the past.

Your phone has several thousand times its memory.

[ari-freedom]

Where are the dragons???

[AnotherUnixGeek]

BBN == Bolt Beranek and Newman, I assume?

Where is UC Berkeley in this map? I see UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and UCLA...

[mrsmith]

That is cool!
(Probably should have copyrighted it though.)

[XEHRpa]

I’ve got an earlier version of this map from April 1972 (as well as MAY ‘73 and JAN ‘74), but don’t know how to post it on the internet.

[norwaypinesavage]

There were other things besides ARPA at that time. I remember using the Dartmouth Time Sharing System (DTSS) before 1974 to generate “emails”. I would write a series of BASIC print statements which would then be executed anywhere on the DTSS system. I used it to transfer data between Arizona and Michigan. There was also the University of Minnesota gopher (go fer) system preceding HTML. That may have been after 1974, though.