Article ID: CBB143265022

From the Editor's Desk (2017)

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This issue features articles on history of the computer networks and networking. David Hemmendinger uncovers two early and previously undocumented computer networks that predated the Arpanet by as much as a half-decade, and participant-historians John Day and Craig Partridge masterfully demonstrate just how important it is that we unpack intimidating sets of acronyms (both technical and organizational) to reveal the people, practices, and politics that lie behind them. Lastly, in the second of their two-part series on visual representations of the Arpanet, Bradley Fidler and Marie Currie explore the ways in which the original Arpanet maps are anything but straightforward depictions of the physical or spatial "reality" of the network.

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Authors & Contributors
Cortada, James W.
Fidler, Bradley Reuben
Yost, Jeffrey R.
Guy C. Fedorkow
Elzway, Salem
Currie, Morgan
Concepts
History of Computing
Software
Computer networks
International Business Machines Corporation
Computer industry
Computer security; cyber security
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
United States
Europe
Soviet Union
India
Institutions
Control Data Corporation
Peter Norton Computing Corporation
Symantec Corporation
International Network Working Group
Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
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