This was really interesting reading on the early days. Aloha net with carrier sensing grew into AX.25 amateur packet radio but the hidden transmitter problem me

This was really interesting reading on the early days. Aloha net with carrier sensing grew into AX.25 amateur packet radio but the hidden transmitter problem meant throughput wouldn't exceed something like 30% (if I'm remembering Phil Karn ka9q's calculations correctly). The human aspect of computer mediated communications is likewise fascinating. NJIT's Murray Turoff and Starr Roxanne Hiltz performed substantial research into the problems we still face in collaborating and communicating electronically, including issues of reputations for pseudonymous personages and anonymity and beneficial mechanisms to support them. More so they implemented it in the EIES system. Their book "A Network Nation" remains in print and relevant. https://www.powells.com/book/network-nation-revised-edition-human-communication-via-computer-9780262581202 https://www.powells.com/book/network-nation-revised-edition-...