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From: eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.society
Subject: Re: History of Communications Networks
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Date: 7 Jun 90 21:50:33 GMT
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I wrote an unpublished paper on this when I was invited to China
in 1984 (subsequently denied permission by the Government [sensitive
technological position]).

I collected papers from ARPAnet history (Elizabeth Feinler at SRI),
and others.

If you want to learn about phones, just go to the library, there are
numerous books, sorry none off the top of my head, on the history of the
phone systems, or just write AT&T, hell, phone them.  Places like this
write their own histories.  

A good history reference for computer networks (I have the history of 
Xerox PARC, Ames, etc.) is Tanenbaum's Computer Networks book, but it will 
not convey you the feeling of being an early net user.

Also try [John] Quarterman's "[The] Matrix" book.

e. nobuo miya