ARPANET - Revision history

Jnc: /* Further reading */ Link AFIPS

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‎Further reading: Link AFIPS

Jnc: /* External links */ +Resurrection of the 1973 IMP code

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‎External links: +Resurrection of the 1973 IMP code

Jnc: "Where Wizards Stay Up Late" - link to online copy

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"Where Wizards Stay Up Late" - link to online copy

Jnc: /* External links */ +Alexander McKenzie oral history

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‎External links: +Alexander McKenzie oral history

Jnc: Later converted to using TCP/IP, and NCP was disabled

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Later converted to using TCP/IP, and NCP was disabled

Jnc: /* External links */ +TCP-IP-Digest

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‎External links: +TCP-IP-Digest

Jnc: /* External links */ +Heralds of Resource Sharing

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‎External links: +Heralds of Resource Sharing

Jnc: /* External links */ +Scenarios for Using the ARPANET

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‎External links: +Scenarios for Using the ARPANET

Jnc: /* Further reading */ +The ARPANET IMP Program: Retrospective and Resurrection

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‎Further reading: +The ARPANET IMP Program: Retrospective and Resurrection

Jnc: "ARPANET" is _always_ used with the definite article ("the")

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"ARPANET" is _always_ used with the definite article ("the")

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 ==Further reading==
-* F.E. Heart, R.E. Kahn, S.M. Ornstein, W.R. Crowther, and D.C. Walden, [http://www.walden-family.com/public/1970-imp-afips.pdf ''The interface message processor for the ARPA computer network''], Proceedings AFIPS, 1970 SJCC, Vol. 36, pp. 551-567.
+* F.E. Heart, R.E. Kahn, S.M. Ornstein, W.R. Crowther, and D.C. Walden, [http://www.walden-family.com/public/1970-imp-afips.pdf ''The interface message processor for the ARPA computer network''], Proceedings [[American Federation of Information Processing Societies|AFIPS]], 1970 SJCC, Vol. 36, pp. 551-567.
 * J.M. McQuillan, W.R. Crowther, B.P. Cosell, D.C. Walden, and F.E. Heart, [http://walden-family.com/impcode/1972-improvements-paper.pdf ''Improvements in the Design and Performance of the ARPA Network''], Proceedings AFIPS, 1972 FJCC, Vol. 40, pp. 741-754.
 * John M. McQuillan, David C. Walden, [http://www.walden-family.com/public/whole-paper.pdf ''The ARPA Network Design Decisions''], in "Computer Networks", Vol. 1, No. 5, August 1977, pp. 243-289.

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 * [https://ban.ai/multics/doc/kirstein-arpanet.pdf Early Experiences with the ARPANET and INTERNET in the UK]
 * [https://www.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/museum/tcp-ip-digest/ TCP-IP-Digest] - this mailing list recorded the work to convert the ARPANET to TCP/IP
 [[Category: ARPANET]]

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 ==Further reading==
-* F.E. Heart, R.E. Kahn, S.M. Ornstein, W.R. Crowther, and D.C. Walden, "[http://www.walden-family.com/public/1970-imp-afips.pdf The interface message processor for the ARPA computer network]", Proceedings AFIPS, 1970 SJCC, Vol. 36, pp. 551-567.
+* F.E. Heart, R.E. Kahn, S.M. Ornstein, W.R. Crowther, and D.C. Walden, [http://www.walden-family.com/public/1970-imp-afips.pdf ''The interface message processor for the ARPA computer network''], Proceedings AFIPS, 1970 SJCC, Vol. 36, pp. 551-567.
-* J.M. McQuillan, W.R. Crowther, B.P. Cosell, D.C. Walden, and F.E. Heart, "[http://walden-family.com/impcode/1972-improvements-paper.pdf Improvements in the Design and Performance of the ARPA Network]", Proceedings AFIPS, 1972 FJCC, Vol. 40, pp. 741-754.
+* J.M. McQuillan, W.R. Crowther, B.P. Cosell, D.C. Walden, and F.E. Heart, [http://walden-family.com/impcode/1972-improvements-paper.pdf ''Improvements in the Design and Performance of the ARPA Network''], Proceedings AFIPS, 1972 FJCC, Vol. 40, pp. 741-754.
-* John M. McQuillan, David C. Walden, "[http://www.walden-family.com/public/whole-paper.pdf The ARPA Network Design Decisions]", in "Computer Networks", Vol. 1, No. 5, August 1977, pp. 243-289.
+* John M. McQuillan, David C. Walden, [http://www.walden-family.com/public/whole-paper.pdf ''The ARPA Network Design Decisions''], in "Computer Networks", Vol. 1, No. 5, August 1977, pp. 243-289.
-* David Walden, 'IMP Software Guys', [https://walden-family.com/bbn/imp-code.pdf The ARPANET IMP Program: Retrospective and Resurrection], [[Annals of the History of Computing]], Vol. 36, No. 2, April-June 2014, pp. 28-39
+* David Walden, 'IMP Software Guys', [https://walden-family.com/bbn/imp-code.pdf ''The ARPANET IMP Program: Retrospective and Resurrection''], [[Annals of the History of Computing]], Vol. 36, No. 2, April-June 2014, pp. 28-39 <!-- https://www.scribd.com/document/865776956/The-Arpanet-IMP-Program-imp-code - as-published version -->
-* Katie Hafner, "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet", Simon & Schuster, New York, 1996 - well researched, and accessibly told, history
+* Katie Hafner, [https://monoskop.org/images/e/ee/Hafner_Katie_Lyon_Matthew_Where_Wizards_Stay_Up_Late_The_Origins_Of_The_Internet.pdf ''Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet''], Simon & Schuster, New York, 1996 - well researched, and accessibly told, history
 ==External links==

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 ==External links==
 * [https://walden-family.com/bbn/arpanet-rfq.pdf ARPANET RFQ] - the acorn
 * [https://walden-family.com/bbn/arpanet-prop-ocr.pdf ARPANET Proposal] - the seedling
 * [https://walden-family.com/bbn/arpanet-completion-report.pdf A History of the ARPANET: The First Decade ] - the tree <!-- https://ipj.dreamhosters.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/A-History-of-the-ARPANet.pdf https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA115440.pdf -->
 * [http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/arpanet.html ARPANET Technical Information]
 ** [http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/arpageo.html ARPANET Technical Information: Geographic Maps]
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 ** [http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/arpaprot.html ARPANET Technical Information: ARPANET Protocol Handbook]
 * [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F6OJOu8K7Mcfwdh_oTpZAO1J0U71VyBP/view Scenarios for Using the ARPANET] - details of the demo at ICCC 1972
 * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdf5fMAL994 Heralds of Resource Sharing] - interesting contemporaneous documentary on the ARPANET
 * [https://ban.ai/multics/doc/kirstein-arpanet.pdf Early Experiences with the ARPANET and INTERNET in the UK]

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 * [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vBXEHEClcD9XLqueVyVf831LOlqn0hrJ/view Host-to-Host Protocol] (early version [http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc714.txt here])
-These [[protocol]]s formed the [[Network Control Protocol]], which all the [[application]] [[protocol]]s ran over.
+These [[protocol]]s formed the [[Network Control Protocol]] (NCP), which all the [[application]] [[protocol]]s ran over.
 Those included:
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 * [http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/history/Mail_Protocol.txt MAIL] ([http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc772.txt here] is a much later proposal which eventually became [[SMTP]])
 * [http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc742.txt NAME/FINGER]
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-The '''ARPANET''' was the first [[packet]]-based [[wide-area network]]; so named because it was initiated, and initially funded, by [[Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency|ARPA]]. It was intermediate between a [[circuit-switching|virtual circuit]] network and a [[datagram]] network, but closer to the former. There was no 'call setup'; but it had what amounted to [[connection]]s inside the network, data was delivered reliably and in order, and it had [[flow control]] in the network.
+The '''ARPANET''' (the word 'ARPANET' IS '''''always''''' used with the definite article ('the') - using naked 'ARPANET' will reveal that you are a clueless, un-educated 'noob') was the first [[packet]]-based [[wide-area network]]; so named because it was initiated, and initially funded, by [[Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency|ARPA]].
 It consisted of [[minicomputer]]s called [[Interface Message Processor]]s ('IMPs', for short) running specialized [[packet switch]]ing [[program|code]], joined together with [[synchronous serial line]]s; [[host]] computers were initially connected to the IMPs by special bit-serial [[1822 interface]]s.
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 * [https://walden-family.com/bbn/arpanet-rfq.pdf ARPANET RFQ] - the acorn
 * [https://walden-family.com/bbn/arpanet-prop-ocr.pdf ARPANET Proposal] - the seedling
-* [https://walden-family.com/bbn/arpanet-completion-report.pdf A History of the ARPANET: The First Decade ] - the tree <!-- https://ipj.dreamhosters.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/A-History-of-the-ARPANet.pdf -->
+* [https://walden-family.com/bbn/arpanet-completion-report.pdf A History of the ARPANET: The First Decade ] - the tree <!-- https://ipj.dreamhosters.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/A-History-of-the-ARPANet.pdf https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA115440.pdf -->
 * [http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/arpanet.html ARPANET Technical Information]
 ** [http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/arpageo.html ARPANET Technical Information: Geographic Maps]