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From: louie@SAYSHELL.UMD.EDU (Louis A. Mamakos)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Mourning of the passing of the ARPANET
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Date: 9 Jun 90 02:09:21 GMT
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Milo,

If I'm not mistaken, the last production PSN on the ARPANET is/was PSN #17
at the University of Maryland.  It was but a shell of a network before its
time had come.. the only connection being an IST to the Princeton PSN, with
no host ports still in use.  A network with no user ports.

I had the honor/pleasure of turning off the power switch myself just a few
days ago..

louie


>Folks, it appears that the ARPANET has quietly passed away into the annals
>of network history.  June 1 was the official cut off date I believe, and I
>did some traceroute's to a net 10 host and not even the DDN Core knew
>about a route to net 10!  Not even the Mailbridge at BBN in Cambridge.