Thread: Radio stations in the net

Hmm. I've always heard it was "international network", although "internet" (between networks) would make some sense too. Regardless, capitalise it.

I do of course know the prefix 'inter-' .

Originally Posted by Rtyom

Internet doesn't mean "international." "Inter-" is a latin prefix meaning "between, among."

Which would make sense because it was originally a domestic Defense network; pretty sure they weren't hoping to hook up with the Soviets!

Originally Posted by Barmaley

Originally Posted by Rtyom

Internet doesn't mean "international." "Inter-" is a latin prefix meaning "between, among."

Which would make sense because it was originally a domestic Defense network; pretty sure they weren't hoping to hook up with the Soviets!

It wasn't called the Internet back then, y'fool .

The first TCP/IP wide area network was operational by January 1, 1983 (this is technically the birth of the Internet), when the United States' National Science Foundation (NSF) constructed a university network backbone that would later become the NSFNet. It was then followed by the opening of the network to commercial interests in 1995. Important separate networks that offered gateways into, then later merged into the Internet include Usenet, Bitnet and the various commercial and educational X.25 networks such as Compuserve and JANET. The ability of TCP/IP to work over these pre-existing communication networks allowed for a great ease of growth. Use of Internet as a phrase to describe a single global TCP/IP network originated around this time.

From Wikipedia, and I bet you can't suggest a better place to get techie information.

Originally Posted by Seventh-Monkey

Originally Posted by Barmaley

Originally Posted by Rtyom

Internet doesn't mean "international." "Inter-" is a latin prefix meaning "between, among."

Which would make sense because it was originally a domestic Defense network; pretty sure they weren't hoping to hook up with the Soviets!

It wasn't called the Internet back then, y'fool . From Wikipedia, and I bet you can't suggest a better place to get techie information.

I think I'll just play the oh-so-convenient "Wikipedia is not a reliable, peer-reviewed source of information" card here!

Well, I don't agree with that Wikipedia article, so I think I'll go change it so I'm right...

Originally Posted by basurero

Well, I don't agree with that Wikipedia article, so I think I'll go change it so I'm right...

Precisely. That's what an American congressman did. He decided he didn't like what was written about him, so his staffers changed it!

I know that the first netwrok was launched back in 1969 and called ARPAnet.

Originally Posted by Rtyom

I know that the first netwrok was launched back in 1969 and called ARPAnet.

I thought it was DARPAnet, but google seems to prove you correct.

ARPA, the organisation, later became DARPA. I don't know if they added the 'D' to the name of the network.

Originally Posted by Seventh-Monkey

ARPA, the organisation, later became DARPA. I don't know if they added the 'D' to the name of the network.

LOL. This explains it all. Seems the guys in Washington can't make up their minds:
February 7, 1958: Created ARPA.
March 23, 1972: Renamed DARPA.
February 22, 1993: Changed back to ARPA
February 10, 1996: Changed back to DARPA

Thank you so much to our elected officials for all your valuable work!!!

link: http://www.darpa.mil/body/arpa_darpa.html

Heh, I had no idea.

Anyway, you can see that (D)ARPANET is a proper noun, and today's Internet is pretty similar. Q.E.D. Reminds me, gotta look up what "c.f." stands for... aha, "confer", from Latin. I'm sure that should be "c'f.", but never mind.