A map of the entire internet as of May 1973
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A map of the entire internet as of May 1973
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Re: A map of the entire internet as of May 1973
#2One of my old networks lecturers used to love trotting out this on a slide, pretty sure he had the same map in his attic.
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#3This version from 1974 includes the first international link to UCL in London. As no-one had budget for a dedicated transatlantic link, it was piggybacked on a link via NORSAR in Norway that was intended for seismic monitoring of nuclear tests.
http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeo...
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#4See also RFC 4.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4
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#5Surprised that Berkeley got online later than several others UCs and LBL.
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#6This version from 1974 includes the first international link to UCL in London. As no-one had budget for a dedicated transatlantic link, it was piggybacked on a link via NORSAR in Norway that was intended for seismic monitoring of nuclear tests. http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeo...
...being a bit of a pedant (and Norwegian!) I'd like to point out that the first international link was precisely the one to NORSAR at Kjeller; the link over the North Sea to UCL was the second. :)
(Kjeller/NORSAR was hooked up in June 1973 using a blistering fast 9.6kbps link, if memory serves)
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#7For a geographic representation, try:
* ARPANET Maps || http://som.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/history/arpamaps/
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#8Make a high quality scan and blow it up so we can all print out our very own internet map!
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#9This version from 1974 includes the first international link to UCL in London. As no-one had budget for a dedicated transatlantic link, it was piggybacked on a link via NORSAR in Norway that was intended for seismic monitoring of nuclear tests. http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeo...
...being a bit of a pedant (and Norwegian!) I'd like to point out that the first international link was precisely the one to NORSAR at Kjeller; the link over the North Sea to UCL was the second. :) (Kjeller/NORSAR was hooked up in June 1973 using a blistering fast 9.6kbps link, if memory serves)
The history of this link is quite interesting:
http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/internet-history.html
Anyway, I think we can agree to share the glory; although the first international link was to the TIP at Kjeller, the first end host was the PDP-9 in London, which itself acted as a relay to the University of London CDC.
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#10One interesting aside is you can see from that even this early in the evolution of what's still a very sparse network, how dense the resources are in California, presaging the eventual concentration of the "internet business" there. Sensitive dependence on initial conditions and such.
It's also interesting to note that the DC area is the #2 (arguably tied with Boston) given how relatively inconsequential that community is now to what we'd consider the tech sector. That was a slow process of course, given that at one point AOL dominated the consumer internet from its offices near Tysons Corner.