<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>Excellent!!</div><div><br></div><div>On Wed, 2018-06-27 at 19:17 +0000, Lightner, Jeffrey via Ale wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>You whippersnappers get off my lan!</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>-----Original Message-----</pre><pre>From: Ale [mailto:<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>] On Behalf Of DJ-Pfulio via Ale</pre><pre>Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2018 2:59 PM</pre><pre>To: <a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a></pre><pre>Subject: Re: [ale] Frank Heart, Who Linked Computers Before the Internet, Dies at 89</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>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.</pre><pre>newguard.icei.org/jointhefight</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>They have a plan to mentor people based on their interests.</pre><pre>Being younger is an asset.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>On 06/27/2018 12:53 PM, Scott M. Jones via Ale wrote:</pre><pre><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></pre><pre>Sadly, pioneers of the first generation of Internet technology are </pre><pre>dying off. Frank Heart developed the first IMP. I remember IMP's </pre><pre>from college. (Basically the first router.)</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Frank Heart, Who Linked Computers Before the Internet, Dies at 89</pre><pre><br></pre><pre><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/technology/frank-heart-who-linked-c">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/technology/frank-heart-who-linked-c</a></pre><pre>omputers-before-the-internet-dies-at-89.html</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>"The machine was built during nine frenetic months. Just before Labor </pre><pre>Day in 1969, two members of the team flew to California to install the </pre><pre>first machine — roughly the size of a refrigerator and weighing more </pre><pre>than 900 pounds — at the University of California, Los Angeles. A few </pre><pre>weeks later, the second I.M.P. went in, at Stanford Research Institute </pre><pre>(now SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif.), and a computer network </pre><pre>was born."</pre><pre></pre><pre>_______________________________________________</pre><pre>Ale mailing list</pre><pre><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a></pre><pre><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a></pre><pre>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at</pre><pre><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a></pre><pre>_______________________________________________</pre><pre>Ale mailing list</pre><pre><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a></pre><pre><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a></pre><pre>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at</pre><pre><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a></pre><pre><br></pre></blockquote><div><span><pre><pre>-- <br></pre>James P. Kinney III
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