Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444464304577539063008406518.html
WSJ mangles history to argue government didn't launch the Internet http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/wsj-mangles-history-to-argue-government-didnt-launch-the-internet/ As We May Think - Vannevar Bush http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/3881/ co-worker from the IBM science center: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson_Hendricks In 1976, MIT Professor Jerry Saltzer accompanied Hendricks to DARPA, where Henricks described his innovations to the principal scientist, Dr. Vinton P. Cerf. From that point on, Vint and other DARPA scientists adopted Hendricks -- connectionless approach. The result developed into the Internet as we know it today. ... snip ... note, GML was (also) invented at the IBM science center in 1969 and decade later morphs into ISO standard SGML ... and then after another decade morphs into HTML http://infomesh.net/html/history/early first webserver outside europe is on slac's vm370 service: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/history/earlyweb/history.shtml "virtual machines" also invented at the IBM science center in the 60s past posts mentioning IBM science center http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech past posts mentioning IBM internal network http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet old email mentioning IBM internal network http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vnet past posts mentioning (mainframe) bitnet/earn network (ibm-main mailing list originated on bitnet in the 80s) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#bitnet past posts mentioning arpanet/internet http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internet past posts mentioning GML/SGML http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#sgml TCP/IP is the technology basis for the modern internet, NSFNET backbone was the operational basis for the modern internet, and CIX was the business basis for the modern internet; misc. old email about NSFNET backbone: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet past posts mentioning nsfnet backbone http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#nsfnet -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN