Fifty years ago today...
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The predecessor to the Internet, ARPANET carried the first message between two computers. On the second try, admittedly - the first attempt to login crashed after the "L" and the "O" and it took an hour or so to fix the bug. ARPANET establishes 1st computer-to-computer link, October 29, 1969[^] I used ARPANET - briefly - in the early eighties: feeling old yet? :laugh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
For me, 50 years ago, I was programming using punch cards. Sure glad those went away. Computers back then weren't exactly fast either, I doubt they had the power of a modern calculator. Gratefully, we have come a long way and computers have become far more powerful and easier to work with. Might I also add, a lot more fun. mvarey
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This was my introduction to any sort of large network when I worked in London Guildhall University in the late eighties [JANET - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET)
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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The predecessor to the Internet, ARPANET carried the first message between two computers. On the second try, admittedly - the first attempt to login crashed after the "L" and the "O" and it took an hour or so to fix the bug. ARPANET establishes 1st computer-to-computer link, October 29, 1969[^] I used ARPANET - briefly - in the early eighties: feeling old yet? :laugh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
The third message contained a link to a cat video that wouldn't be available for another 40 years. They were so forward-looking back then.
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For me, 50 years ago, I was programming using punch cards. Sure glad those went away. Computers back then weren't exactly fast either, I doubt they had the power of a modern calculator. Gratefully, we have come a long way and computers have become far more powerful and easier to work with. Might I also add, a lot more fun. mvarey
- Dad, what is "calculator"? (Around 1995 I was lecturing in computer and telecommunication networking. When introducing signalling systems, I figured I should start out with something basic and well known: The interrupt signalling used by rotary dial phones. The studens gave me a blank stare - What is that? It turned out that of 54 students, a single one had ever used a rotary dial phone, one knew his aunt to have one, and a third student had seen such a thing. A few of the remaining students had seen them in old movies, but not in real life. ... I would expect young people of today not knowing that we had dedicated devices for running a calc app only, and nothing else. They won't see the purpose of it, why we would want to have one piece of equipment for adding the grocery ticket, a second for talking though, a third one to swich the TV to another channel, a fourth one to turn the heat up... Why???)
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Very, very long ago, I used the Adidas network :-\
In the early 1990s, when I was teaching computer networks at a tech college, one problem in the final exam was to compare a 9600 bps modem line to my St.Bernhard "Bass", trained to run arbitrary distances at a speed of 15 km/h, carrying (rather than a keg of whiskey) under his chin a box of ten 1,44 Mbyte floppies. (Sure, the idea came from A. Tanenbaum: Computer Networks; I just had to brush up the speeds and capacities a little bit.) One of the students made some remarks about noise along the line, in the form of bitches in heat along the route. Another one commented that the data was physically protected against theft ...
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The predecessor to the Internet, ARPANET carried the first message between two computers. On the second try, admittedly - the first attempt to login crashed after the "L" and the "O" and it took an hour or so to fix the bug. ARPANET establishes 1st computer-to-computer link, October 29, 1969[^] I used ARPANET - briefly - in the early eighties: feeling old yet? :laugh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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The predecessor to the Internet, ARPANET carried the first message between two computers. On the second try, admittedly - the first attempt to login crashed after the "L" and the "O" and it took an hour or so to fix the bug. ARPANET establishes 1st computer-to-computer link, October 29, 1969[^] I used ARPANET - briefly - in the early eighties: feeling old yet? :laugh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
I was at UCSB when the ARPANET was up in mid 70's running on an IMP processor. I used it to run the MIT Math lab remotely and other things. The Culler-Fried (we called it KFC, but his name sounds like Freed ) on-line system used a card-oriented interface (COL, I think, IBM 80 columns) and a math interface (MOLSF). Had a double keyboard with math functions on top, the output was on a Tektronix Storage Oscilloscope. "Clear Screen" was the erase button! Ran all my Fortran simulations on it connected to a 360/75 with real iron-core memory.
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For me, 50 years ago, I was programming using punch cards. Sure glad those went away. Computers back then weren't exactly fast either, I doubt they had the power of a modern calculator. Gratefully, we have come a long way and computers have become far more powerful and easier to work with. Might I also add, a lot more fun. mvarey
Fifty years ago, and a few more, I was using paper tape, bit switches and an ASR33 attached via current loop at 110bps. I think I got more practical stuff done then than I do now using multiple screens and a hyped up IDE, but today's stuff looks prettier.
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Whippersnapper! I wrote my first program in the summer of 1965, in FORTRAN II on an IBM 1620.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
feeling old yet?
It's not very often, these days, that I can say "I wasn't even born then", but I wasn't born until mid 1970, so just missed the invention of ARPANET :-D
I can say that I was around at that time. I was 13 days old, but I was around.
Kelly Herald Software Developer
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The predecessor to the Internet, ARPANET carried the first message between two computers. On the second try, admittedly - the first attempt to login crashed after the "L" and the "O" and it took an hour or so to fix the bug. ARPANET establishes 1st computer-to-computer link, October 29, 1969[^] I used ARPANET - briefly - in the early eighties: feeling old yet? :laugh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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The predecessor to the Internet, ARPANET carried the first message between two computers. On the second try, admittedly - the first attempt to login crashed after the "L" and the "O" and it took an hour or so to fix the bug. ARPANET establishes 1st computer-to-computer link, October 29, 1969[^] I used ARPANET - briefly - in the early eighties: feeling old yet? :laugh:
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
