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Larry Roberts is the architect of the Internet (and bears a certain resemblance to the Architect of the Matrix).

Here he is updating the previous speaker, Juan Enriquez, on a slide he showed of the first hand drawn map of the ARPANET, circa 1969. Larry had drawn that map. The first two nodes were at UCLA and SRI. In 1971, Larry’s email program was the first killer app for the new network.

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3 responses to “The Architect”

  1. angry shock Avatar
    angry shock

    That man is definitely my friend! My eternal gratitude… pliz, tell him he has one-eye friend. 0-)

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  2. sweet thing Avatar
    sweet thing

    The frist byte may have been between two California elites, but don’t forget UCSB and Utah.. I hear the IBM 360 connected in this first network is still in the basement of a building on-campus. Should be in a museum if you ask me. I wonder if they still permit logins?

    credit: http://www.sri.com/about/timeline/arpanet.html

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  3. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    And then 18 years later…. ARPANET is the green in the middle
    Internet Splat Map

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