Original Internet

[dbacks fan]

Here is a  forerunner of what we have now.

[dbacks fan]

Though not an expert or a writer, I'm just gathering infomation for the period of time from the end of WWII until the fall of the Berlin Wall. I have a good amount of info, but I'm not sure yet how I'm going to put it together. I have and will post some things that I find that maybe interesting to other members of TNF that experienced this era as children or adults, and I appreciate input as to my project, and as I said I don't know what I'm going to do with it yet.

[dbacks fan]

Here is a program from IBM UK in 1965 that actually shows a CAT or MRI in the mid 60's.

[dbacks fan]

In the link that I am including the zulu date is year(last two digits) month, day.

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Nevada.html

These are the underground nuclear tests from 1957 until 1992.

Here are the above ground including Castle Bravo the laregst nuclear explosion in the US and the second largest behind Tsar by USSR, that is the largest period.

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/index.html

It's funny that Adli Stevenson condemed the Soviets after the US had accidently exploded above ground the largest thermonuclear (hydrogen) bomb, and radiated fisherman, and villagers thought to be outside of the affected area.

[dbacks fan]

Sorry, went off on a tangent.

[nathanm]

Cold War stuff is fascinating. Did you know that underground tests were also conducted in Colorado and Mississippi as part of Project Plowshare?

If you want to know about the origins of the pre-TCP/IP Internet, there's a 1972 documentary on Google Video called "Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing". Back then the idea of a router was a novel thing. Previously, the computers would be linked directly to each other, so any time one went offline for maintenance or crashed or whatever, part of the network would just go away. The opening has a nice example of early computer-generated music.

It amazes me to think that hard drives had only recently been invented and that RAM was still based on magnetic cores, yet it was already possible to access a computer on the other side of the country in real time.