🚀 go-pugleaf

like BPG at N.Dakota SU, I am also in need of a history lesson. I am
doing a project on the history of electronic networks (especially
computer ones- naturally). I am looking for two kinds of info/documents:
standard histories of electronic nets i.e. organization history &
structure(s), and the *social history* of netorks, i.e. what did the
folks who laid the groundwork for them envision/have in mind when they
wrote the original software & protocols; what did they think they'd be
used for & by whom, for what purposes? E.g. Did they think that there
would be all these public as well as commercial nets; was access
supposed to be general or restricted, etc.?
This may be beyond the interests of folks on this list- I apologize
in advance to those who think so. On the other hand there are
undoubtedly some micro-oreinted folks who know about this, know others
who know about this and can refer me on to other more appropriate
sources (persons, books, journals). I hope those folks will respond to
me directly, & I will in turn correspond with them. I'm willing to
summarize responses to the list if there is interest in that.
Bitnet:   AEPARIS@SUVM
Arthur Paris / Soc. Dept. / Syracuse U / 315 443 2279