The Tym Before ... - Gregory, Nathan
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The Cloud! It sounds fluffy and soft. Amorphous, remote, floating above the world. Run it in the Cloud, we say. A modern metaphor, but we once had another name, a more descriptive name for using someone else's computer. We called it timesharing. Today we mix the idea of using distant computers and the idea of communicating via a network and call the combination The Cloud, imagining we have invented something new. But it isn't so new after all. Beginning in the 1960s, a company created a successful business making remote computer services available inexpensively to anyone via a network built…mehr

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The Cloud! It sounds fluffy and soft. Amorphous, remote, floating above the world. Run it in the Cloud, we say. A modern metaphor, but we once had another name, a more descriptive name for using someone else's computer. We called it timesharing. Today we mix the idea of using distant computers and the idea of communicating via a network and call the combination The Cloud, imagining we have invented something new. But it isn't so new after all. Beginning in the 1960s, a company created a successful business making remote computer services available inexpensively to anyone via a network built for that purpose. In doing so, they created the first cloud. Companies offered online resources from banking to research, email to instant messaging, and the ability to run applications on powerful, remote computers and access them from anywhere. They called it Tymnet, and the company was Tymshare.
Autorenporträt
Meanwhile, there arose many commercial entities jockeying for a piece of the existing network pie. They called themselves ISPs, but the acronym was not the same as we know today. It stood for IP Services Providers, and they were looking to use Internet technologies to cannibalize the many dedicated corporate networks, as well as the pre-existing commercial public packet-switched networks with a less expensive alternative. Chief among these was UUNET, founded in 1987. They profoundly disliked ANS! They considered ANS a threat to the openness of the Internet. There was a joke at the time that said "The only thing missing from ANS is U" which appeared on a popular T-shirt at Interop Spring 1992. Debate raged about who was going to "own" the Internet when the NSF turned off the government-funded backbone. The IP Services Providers began carrying traffic by interconnecting. From this debate emerged an independent entity beyond the control of the NSF, an interconnection point called MAE-East. This collection of scrappy upstart ISPs united for the formation of MAE-East and drove the creation of the long-haul Commercial Internet backbone with MFS Datanet. From there, the Commercial Internet developed and grew, and became the Internet we know today. The book "Securing the Network" tells the story of how this happened and the roles of people who made it happen. Learn the forgotten side of Internet history. Buy "Securing the Network" today!