History Channel - The Internet: Behind the Web

From: vance_at_neurotica.com <(vance_at_neurotica.com)>
Date: Sun Oct 13 19:55:36 2002

IBM internally still uses S/1's on WAN links in places.

Peace... Sridhar

On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, William Donzelli wrote:

> > So, the IMPs they built would be the first network interface, right? The
> > precurser to the present-day NIC.
>
> Nahhh...evrybody knows that the first real network was Ma Bell...
>
> > I wonder if any of those are still
> > around... Or if they're even used once in a while...
>
> Until quite recently, the oldest parts of the Internet were some NSFnet
> (ANS) era links. These are now gone. The old APRAnet (where IMPs lived)
> links died years ago.
>
> There are some private WANs that (at least fairly recently) use very old
> technology. One of the sites I frequented (3 or 4 years ago) had a bunch
> of blinkenlight HP minis used as NICs. Another used IBM S/1s. I never
> found out who these machines belonged to.
>
> William Donzelli
> aw288_at_osfn.org
>
Received on Sun Oct 13 2002 - 19:55:36 BST