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Leonard Kleinrock On The Origins of Packet Switching

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the who-thought-what-when dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "From Ben Sullivan's Tech Blog (http://www.techblog.com). An email from Leonard Kleinrock on why he really was the brains behind packet switching. It's a first-hand account from Kleinrock in a blog. A neat little journalistic scoop for bloggers, and some insights for techheads on Internet history."

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  1. From last time by oregon · · Score: 3, Informative

    A previous discussion here.

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  2. His own webpage by leiz · · Score: 3, Informative

    He has his very own webpage with information about the early days of the internet as well as his accomplishments.

  3. Re:everyone knows... by isdnip · · Score: 3, Informative

    In Congress, "initiative" refers to a funding measure. Gore led the charge for the funding for the NSFnet. That was indeed an "initiative". And the NSFnet was *the* major Internet backbone after the ARPAnet and before commercialization.

    Finding a different meaning of a word which doesn't apply is simply obfuscation.