[31528] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Inventor of the Internet Technology / Father of Modern Day Networking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Majdi S. Abbas)
Wed Sep 27 13:17:02 2000
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 10:14:08 -0700
From: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@samurai.sfo.dead-dog.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Ehud Gavron <GAVRON@ACES.COM>, nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <200009271651.e8RGpch14556@black-ice.cc.vt.edu>; from Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu on Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 12:51:37PM -0400
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On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 12:51:37PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> Well, he may have invented the idea of packet switching, but note that
> he was NOT one of the inventors of TCP/IP.
To be fair, the site does include a link to
http://www.isoc.org/internet-history/brief.html and also points out the
difference between packet-switching and IP.
--msa
