[OT] The internet is 40 years old today!

[Mel Wilson]

Duncan MacGregor wrote:
> Actually the beginning was surely the first demonstration of a standard network interchange between the systems of different vendors. It was driven by a customer, (DOD) not a vendor to avoid vendor lock-in. 
> Each vendor, (IBM, CDC, Honeywell, Burroughs, etc.) had developed their own incompatible network.  Often vendor networks could not  even talk to all their own products, let alone their competitor's machines.

Not so much in Honeywell's case.  Each customer had developed its own 
network, and Honeywell would get one if its two or three 
communications specialists to come in and create a unique Datanet-355 
program to handle the protocols.  Your point remains, though.  No two 
systems that weren't born in the same litter would even dream of 
exchanging data remotely.

	Mel.
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