Internet

[Gabor Fencsik]

Fred Shapiro writes:

> I did some more searching.  The line between _Internet_
> 'interconnection of computer networks' and _Internet_ 'universal
> network of networks' is a hard one to draw, but I find _Internet_
> used in an ARPA context as early as January 1977, when it appears
> in an article at pages 175-195 of the journal _Computer Networks_.

By 1977 the word _Internet_ was in fairly widespread use among the
early networking pioneers, both as a noun and as a verb.  It occurs
in a number of early IENs (the forerunners of the RFC specifications
which define the Internet protocol suite). Examples:

IEN-10  Plummer: Internet Broadcast Issues, 7-Mar-77
IEN-21  Cohen: Internetting or Beyond NCP, 21-Mar-77
IEN-3   Postel: Internet Meeting Notes, 15-August-77
IEN-2   Postel: Comments on Internet Protocols and TCP, 15-August-77

Full list: http://sunsite.org.uk/computing/internet/ien/ien-index.txt
Zipped originals: http://sunsite.org.uk/computing/internet/ien/

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Gabor Fencsik