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Re:A map of the entire internet as of May 1973 by mhandley on Monday December 12, 2016 @08:44AM (#13157948)
The history of this link is quite interesting:

http://nrg.cs.ucl.ac.uk/internet-history.html

Anyway, I think we can agree to share the glory; although the first international link was to the TIP at Kjeller, the first end host was the PDP-9 in London, which itself acted as a relay to the University of London CDC.

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Re:A map of the entire internet as of May 1973 by lb1lf on Monday December 12, 2016 @10:27AM (#13158682)
I think you are right; however, I will have to dig into my old copies of the Norwegian engineering monthly Teknisk Ukeblad; I read a very interesting feature there a few years ago, interviewing a couple of then NORSAR employees who admitted that quite a lot of tinkering and exploring resulted once the link was there - as you'd expect, given the nature of boffins...

Edit - I'd like to dig out the old feature not to dispute your suggestion; only to share what was a very entertaining read. :-)

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