Early map of ARPANET

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   Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@calckey.social)'s status on Wednesday, 31-May-2023 04:14:02 JST Chris Trottier

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   Interestingly, the concept of a Fediverse is as old as Star Trek itself. It's not a new idea. Just like Star Trek, the idea started in the 1960s.
   
   In the 1960s, United States Department of Defense launched Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET).
   
   ARPANET was a network of federated nodes that communicate with each other over vast distances.
   
   Amusingly, in early memoranda, ARPANET was described as the "Intergalactic Computer Network".
   
   The idea was simple. If you have three computers, rather than having three separate sets of commands, have one set of commands that would enable conversation across the three computers.
   
   And as more computers join the network, each which would have access to the same set of commands, the usefulness of the shared connectivity would increase.
   
   Here's an early map of what ARPANET looked like.
   
   #LearnFediverse