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Another view of the Internet in 1971

March 27, 2011

Rob Cottingham, who was actually around in 1971, remembers the early Internet a little differently. He’s annotated the Computer History Museum‘s 1971 ARPAnet map, which I included in my kick-off on my 40 years of looking back on the Internet:

A map of the Internet in 1971 shows a variety of 2011-era nuisances

Thanks, Rob, for this early birthday present.

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