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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Steve Crocker: Where Did the Internet Really Come
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Steve Crocker: Where Did the Internet Really Come From?
http://j.mp/OIgbNI (Tech President)
"Could the Internet have been created by private industry? Without
government's help as funder and convenor? I don't think so. Here's
why. When the ARPANET was created, each of the research laboratories
around the country had different equipment. That meant we had to
figure out how to connect machines that were manufactured by different
companies. The first four computers on the ARPANET were the Xerox Data
Systems Sigma 7 at UCLA, the Scientific Data Systems (later acquired
by Xerox Data Systems) SDS 940 at SRI International, the IBM 360/75 at
the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Digital Equipment
PDP-10 at the University of Utah. In order to connect these computers,
there had to be some sort of common standard that was not controlled
by any single company. This applied to every level of the system, from
the hardware interface to the IMP to the basic protocols that moved
messages from one computer to another, to the higher level
applications such as email and, later, the world wide web. The open
architecture of the Internet, with defined interfaces and open
standards that were all freely available, initially made it possible
for any person and any company to participate. This was a fundamental
principle of the early work. This was also a hallmark of the
government research effort, and would not have come about if the
Internet had been created by industry."
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By the way, the OS running on that original UCLA Sigma 7 was called
Sigma EXperimental. You can work out the acronym.
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