Trivia

[themidnightgirl]

Who were/are

Leonard Kleinrock
J.C.R. Licklider & W. Clark
Paul Baran
Lawrence (Larry) G. Roberts
Charley Kline
Ray Tomlinson

?

Comments

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

The only name that rings a faint bell is the last one. I think it's a musician or singer/songwriter but I can't put my finger on it.
Now I'm going to use Google... ;o)

I was wrong...

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Ray Tomlinson invented email, or rather sent the first one, and he's responsible for the @ in email addresses...

Re: I was wrong...

[borusa.livejournal.com]

Yep

Kleinrock wrote the paper that came up with packet-switching.

Licklider and Clarke wrote a paper talking about a Galactic network of social interactions in 1962

Paul Baran expanded on Kleinrock and came up with the idea of a distributed network (as opposed to a decentralized one)

Lawrence Roberts was an early head of ARPA who came up with the idea of ARPANet

Charley Kline was Kleinrocks assistant, and it's he who sent the first packets across a network.

And, as you say, Ray Tomlinson sent the first email...

Berners-Lee, eat your heart out!

Re: I was wrong...

[(Anonymous)]

Robert, you are a sad strange little man and you have my pity.

Were you crashing at my place tonight, I'd put you out of your misery.... Why, which Friday is it? Solent Vamp Friday :)

Dan