From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Birthplace of the internet!
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:42:39 -0400 (EDT)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

"Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu> wrote:
> http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/12/internet-birthplace.html

That's rather silly, for two reasons:

* Nobody called it the Internet until many years later.  It was
  called the ARPAnet, and it had little in common with the Internet
  except that both were packet-switched, and the one network grew
  out of the other.

* Any network obviously had to have started at at least *two* places.
  It wasn't a network when there was only one node on it.