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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>John, to answer your question, although I note the discussion has moved on -<BR>
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I do not believe there is a satisfactory single answer, and I think Daniel’s and Bertrand’s inputs give reasons why this is so. We are dealing with a range of global activities all of which contributed to what we now know as the Internet.<BR>
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If I may quote from a recent private email from Charley Kline, who is widely credited as being the first person to send a message on the Arpanet: </SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'> “ the reality is that no single person or even small group of people created the Internet. We can debate who made the major contributions to concepts, implementation, funding, etc.”<BR>
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And that’s a much wider story than we can account for here,,,(and a pretty interesting one as well!)<BR>
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Ian<BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>John Curran <<a href="jcurran@istaff.org">jcurran@istaff.org</a>><BR>
<B>Reply-To: </B><<a href="governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a>>, John Curran <<a href="jcurran@istaff.org">jcurran@istaff.org</a>><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:46:42 +0000<BR>
<B>To: </B>Ian Peter <<a href="ian.peter@ianpeter.com">ian.peter@ianpeter.com</a>><BR>
<B>Cc: </B><<a href="governance@lists.cpsr.org">governance@lists.cpsr.org</a>><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>Re: [governance] Internet origin (was: IANA contract to be opened for competitive bidding on November 4)<BR>
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On Oct 24, 2011, at 9:05 AM, Ian Peter wrote:<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Geneva, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11.5pt'>The Internet was invented simultaneously in several countries as a cooperative effort ... . The sole invention of the Internet in the Arpanet computer time sharing experiments sponsored by the US Government is a convenient myth – Louis Pouzin’s work in France, Donald Davies’ work in UK, the private enterprise work conducted by John Schoch and others at Parc Xerox Labs, all of these have equally credible claims to the origins of the Internet. There are a few other more indirect claims as well which various historians are now beginning to write up. I have an out of date paper on this at <a href="http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/origins.html">http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/origins.html</a> which I hope to revise one day as there are many omissions there.<BR>
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Ian - <BR>
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By your four criteria outlined in the paper (connection between networks, <BR>
involving computers, involving humans communicating with each other, <BR>
and an actual event), could you please indicate what event you feel meets<BR>
these criteria and therefore qualifies as the "Invention of the Internet? You<BR>
outlined how several do not qualify by these criteria, but do not identify any<BR>
event which does.<BR>
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Thanks,<BR>
/John<BR>
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