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Larry Robert «ARPANET»
Larry Robert, «ARPANET»
© Larry Robert
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Network map taken from Martin Dodge's «Atlas of Cyberspace.»
 


 
 

Categories: Data visualization

Keywords: Globalization

Relevant passages:

icon: authorMartin Dodge «Seeing inside the Cloud»


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 Larry Robert
«ARPANET»

Plotted by the project manager Larry Robert in the late 1960s, this ‹back of the envelope› style sketch map shows the projected topological routing of the fledgling Internet between nodes.

(Source: Hafner and Lyon, 19 K. Hafner/M. Lyons, Where Wizards Stay up Late: The Origins of the Internet, New York, 1996, p. 50)