[ale] Frank Heart, Who Linked Computers Before the Internet, Dies at 89

[Jim Kinney]

Excellent!!

On Wed, 2018-06-27 at 19:17 +0000, Lightner, Jeffrey via Ale wrote:
> You whippersnappers get off my lan!
> -----Original Message-----From: Ale [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On
> Behalf Of DJ-Pfulio via AleSent: Wednesday, June 27, 2018 2:59 PMTo: 
> ale at ale.orgSubject: Re: [ale] Frank Heart, Who Linked Computers
> Before the Internet, Dies at 89
> At SELF this month, ICEI group (Internet Civil Engineering Institute)
> asked for people to help with important internet infrastructure
> projects because many of the responsible people are over 70
> now.newguard.icei.org/jointhefight
> They have a plan to mentor people based on their interests.Being
> younger is an asset.
> 
> 
> On 06/27/2018 12:53 PM, Scott M. Jones via Ale wrote:
> Sadly, pioneers of the first generation of Internet technology are
> dying off.  Frank Heart developed the first IMP.  I remember IMP's
> from college.  (Basically the first router.)
> Frank Heart, Who Linked Computers Before the Internet, Dies at 89
> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/technology/frank-heart-who-linked-
> computers-before-the-internet-dies-at-89.html
> "The machine was built during nine frenetic months. Just before Labor
> Day in 1969, two members of the team flew to California to install
> the first machine — roughly the size of a refrigerator and weighing
> more than 900 pounds — at the University of California, Los Angeles.
> A few weeks later, the second I.M.P. went in, at Stanford Research
> Institute (now SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif.), and a
> computer network was
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