This may be old news here, but over on the Internet History list, Jack Haverty has flagged the ARPANET section of the 1990 ADA report (see below for details). I see that there are chapters on several other interesting topics (and much more besides): INFORMATION PROCESSING XVIII. ILLIAC IV XIX. Project MAC: Computer Time Sharing XX. ARPANET XXI. Artificial Intelligence XXII. Morse Code Reader XX III. ACCAT (Advanced Command and Control Architectural Testbed) Regards Brian Carpenter -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [ih] ARPANET history Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2021 15:27:23 -0700 From: Jack Haverty via Internet-history <internet-history@elists.isoc.org> Reply-To: Jack Haverty <jack@3kitty.org> To: Internet History list <internet-history@elists.isoc.org> FYI, I stumbled across a government report written in 1990 but that I hadn't seen before now. It contains a summary of the creation and evolution of the ARPANET and the beginnings of the Internet. Where it talks about things that I personally experienced, it agrees with my recollections. So I tend to trust the other things it says that are new to me even today. I thought that internet-historians might be interested too. The report is non-technical, but highlights some of the reasons for the success of the project, leading to the Internet we have today, such as the way in which people moved around between organizations, political and managerial decisions within parts of the government, activities for moving the technology from research to operations, and other such non-technical drivers of the success of the Internet. See https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA239925.pdf -- Chapter XX (page 243) /Jack Haverty -- Internet-history mailing list Internet-history@elists.isoc.org https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history