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Learn from the US DoD about the internet 2006 May 23 20:26

Posted by diamond in : Random , trackback

I just came across the Department of Defence Network Information Center faq. It’s distinctly… retro. It refers to BITNET (which waned quickly after the early 90’s) as a competing network to the internet. It claims “The three main protocols in the TCP/IP suite are SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), FTP (File Transfer Protocol), and the TELNET Protocol.”. Other gems are “The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly called “the web” , is a project initiated by the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), located in Switzerland.”. Oh the nostalgia.

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1. cyberviking - 2006 May 24 2:09

So that explains US department of Defence acronym - DoD.

DoDdery (adj.) - shaking, faltering, staggering, shaky, faltering, unsteady, wobbly, frail, feeble, weak.

2. Seb - 2006 May 24 8:30

Reminds me of my early FidoNet days; and our old 2400baud modem. Addresses had the format “Zone:Network/Node”, where zone 1 was US, 2 was Europe, etc…

3. cyberviking - 2006 May 24 22:58

And before then our modems were 300 Baud…. Please note that the baudrate of a Telex machine (the archetype for the TTY) was 75 Baud.