Re:The next big thing will start out looking like a toy (2010)
by dredmorbius on Monday October 21, 2019 @08:56PM
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That was in fact the impetus:
While working at RAND on a scheme for U.S. telecommunications infrastructure to survive a “first strike,” Paul Baran conceived of the Internet and digital packet switching, the Internet's underlying data communications technology. His concepts are still employed today; just the terms are different. His seminal work first appeared in a series of RAND studies published between 1960 and 1962 and then finally in the tome “On Distributed Communications,” published in 1964.
While working at RAND on a scheme for U.S. telecommunications infrastructure to survive a “first strike,” Paul Baran conceived of the Internet and digital packet switching, the Internet's underlying data communications technology. His concepts are still employed today; just the terms are different. His seminal work first appeared in a series of RAND studies published between 1960 and 1962 and then finally in the tome “On Distributed Communications,” published in 1964.
https://www.rand.org/about/history/baran.html
Baran's original packet (block) switched networks development papers, and in fact his entire catalogue, are available at RAND:
"On Distributed Communications I. Introduction to Distributed Communications Networks"
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM3420.html
(This and the others are listed at the first link.)