A long time ago (in a galaxy not too far away), regular people started connecting computers together. A few brave souls tried to do this with dial-up 1200-baud modems over phone lines. Pioneers brought up Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs ; message boards that one person at a time could dial into and exchange short messages, and later small files, with each other). I brought up the eighth BBS in the world, in Atlanta, in about 1977, using code from the original CBBS in Chicago (created by ...
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L. E. HughesThird Generation Internet Revealedhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8603-6_22. History of Computer Networks Up to IPv4
Lawrence E. Hughes1
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Frisco, TX, USA
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