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In reply to the discussion: Willing to share your oldest memory of the "internet"? [View all]lapfog_1
(29,199 posts)I was a student at the Univ of Kansas - working on getting my BS in CS.
I had taken all of the advanced courses offered at my school... and was teaching undergrads in CS600 (assembly language, fundamentals of computing).
A group of other students and I had heard about a class being offered at K-State (down the freeway in Manhattan KS from Lawrence KS) by a Dr. Wallentine on something called the "Arpanet".
Thinking that this might be a "thing" someday... we enrolled in it and commuted to class using the university provided "Kazoo bus" (well, KSU bus). And we all learned about and wrote some code for things called IMPs (Internet Message Processors). KSU was one of around a dozen sites on this thing called the Arpanet and we were writing the code to allow computers with different characters sets, different number representations, etc to communicate with each other. Saw early file transport protocols like FTP being developed along with other applications.
There was no DNS, really no TCP/IP... just the beginnings of the Internet.
our informal class motto was "Much has been written about the Arpanet... we are here to write a little more"