Leonard Kleinrock On The Origins of Packet Switching

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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Re:Not the first Time

[cscx]

I'm guessing that the difference between "karma whore" and "troll" here is the prescence of a Scientific American link and the abscence of a goatse.cx link :o)

Re:everyone knows...

[Zeinfeld]

this one is the truth, not the parent, yet this post get -1 and the partne 3, informative. what a load of crap. that is exactly what gore said "I took the initiative in creating the internet." idiot slashcrappers.

There is a very determined group of people who want to project their particular version of events as 'the truth'. So someone at GOP spin control thinks the issue important enough to tell their people to log into slashdot, see ifthey have mod points and mod people down. And no, I am not making this up, they really do do that sorta thing these days, pretty pathetic eh?

Kinda makes the pissing contest between Kleinrock et. al. over who was the sole inventor of packet switching sound small beer. I mean who actually cares who did what? None of them invented the whole thing, the fact that there are three possible contenders points to the fact that however necessary the design step was, it would have been discovered somehow at that time. It is not like Hawking radiation or Einstein's relativity which could easily have waited several decades longer but for a flash of inspiration.