[ale] Frank Heart, Who Linked Computers Before the Internet, Dies at 89

[DJPfulio at jdpfu.com (DJ-Pfulio)]

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.
newguard.icei.org/jointhefight

They have a plan to mentor people based on their interests.
Being younger is an asset.



On 06/27/2018 12:53 PM, Scott M. Jones via Ale wrote:
> Sadly, pioneers of the first generation of Internet technology are dying
> off.  Frank Heart developed the first IMP.  I remember IMP's from
> college.  (Basically the first router.)
> 
> Frank Heart, Who Linked Computers Before the Internet, Dies at 89
> 
> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/technology/frank-heart-who-linked-computers-before-the-internet-dies-at-89.html
> 
> "The machine was built during nine frenetic months. Just before Labor
> Day in 1969, two members of the team flew to California to install the
> first machine ? roughly the size of a refrigerator and weighing more
> than 900 pounds ? at the University of California, Los Angeles. A few
> weeks later, the second I.M.P. went in, at Stanford Research Institute
> (now SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif.), and a computer network
> was born."