DARPA & Networking

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May be of interest:

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From: Amnon Till <amnont@beitberl.beitberl.ac.il>
To: gsunet-l@bgu.edu
Subject: The DARPA site

http://www.arpa.mil/

DARPA is the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency. We all
know that DARPA initiated in the late 60's project ARPA, which was
omne of the current internet's roots.

If we want to read more about DARPA, its projects, mission statements
history etc etc this is your site.

Bye
Amnon
amnont@beitberl.beitberl.ac.il

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Date: Sat, 10 May 97 09:20:19 -0000 (B+2)
From: Amnon Till <amnont@beitberl.beitberl.ac.il>
To: gsunet-l@bgu.edu
Subject: The future of Networking Technologies for learning

http://www.ed.gov/Technology/Futures/

This site was put by the US Dept. of Edu. office of Edu. Technology.
It is a series of papers & workshops dealing with the subject of the
futuristic use of networking in education written by several experts in
this area.

Bye
Amnon
amnont@beitberl.beitberl.ac.il

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Ciao

Harka

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If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption...

At 11:16 PM -0800 5/12/97, harka@nycmetro.com wrote:

>== Forwarded Message Follows =======================================
>From: Amnon Till <amnont@beitberl.beitberl.ac.il>
>To: gsunet-l@bgu.edu
>Subject: The DARPA site
>
>http://www.arpa.mil/
>
>DARPA is the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency. We all
>know that DARPA initiated in the late 60's project ARPA, which was
>omne of the current internet's roots.
>
>If we want to read more about DARPA, its projects, mission statements
>history etc etc this is your site.

I'm not sure why this is of much interest to our list...ARPA/DARPA being
old news and all.

DARPA did not "intiate project ARPA" (??). Rather, the names have just
changed a couple of times. ARPA was changed to DARPA in 1969-70, in
accordance with the Mansfield Amendment's dictate that research be more
militarily directed.

A few years ago the name DARPA was changed back to ARPA. (But, last I heard
it was back to being DARPA again.)

There's an entertaining new book, "Where Wizards Stay Up Late," by Katie
Hafner, which describes some of the history of the ARPANet. (My university
was one of the first four nodes, so I had a primitive ARPANet account in
1973.)

--Tim May

There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws.
Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!"
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