Because the minisec that Arthur C. Clarke had postulated in Imperial Earth in 1975 and the commlock that appeared in Space:1999 also in 1975 were both obviously

Because the minisec that Arthur C. Clarke had postulated in Imperial Earth in 1975 and the commlock that appeared in Space:1999 also in 1975 were both obviously fantastic nonsense. (-: One can see from IEN28 in 1978 that early forms of 32-bit addressing, at the time comprising 1 octet network, 1 octet IMP, and 2 octets host, weren't even planned as extending beyond ARPANET.