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> So my TV Terminal, for accessing the ARPAnet, was uppercase only. I never realized that the most influential personal computer was specifically designed to a
by kragen 2y ago
> So my TV Terminal, for accessing the ARPAnet, was uppercase only.
I never realized that the most influential personal computer was specifically designed to access what would later become the internet. That's astounding.
(The first internetworking experiments that I can find records of were done as part of the ARPANet project, and some of the protocols and even many of the port numbers we use today in TCP/IP are from ARPANet.)
I also had no idea that Woz had built his own CPU out of discrete logic in 01970. I still haven't done that myself 55 years later!
- adastra22 2y agoI believe the internet is a direct continuation of ARPANet. It just got renamed at some point.
- kragen 2y agoThe ARPAnet (the electronic system) was never an internet (or catenet). It predated internetworking, and it was one of the networks comprising the internet we are using now (specifically, it was 10.0.0.0/8) until its demise in 01990. As a social institution, though, you are correct: the internet we are using now started out as an experiment inside the ARPAnet project.
- pbjtime 2y ago...what year are you from?
- bytesandbots 2y agoThe long now foundation > established in 01996 to foster long-term thinking. Our work encourages imagination at the timescale of civilization
- kragen 2y agoDisclaimer: I am not affiliated with the Long Now Foundation, but I endorse the suggestion to read about them.
- adastra22 2y agoI think you are making a distinction without a difference.
- kragen 2y agoThen you are a laptop.
- bregma 2y ago01970 is not a valid octal number. Perhaps you meant 0x7B2?
- kragen 2y agoIt is in K&R.
- quinndexter 2y agoIt's a Long Now thing.