In 1940 a milestone event, not well remembered until recently (Loveday 1977), took place at Dartmouth. Dr. George Stibitz of the Bell Telephone Laboratories demonstrated publicly for the first time, at the annual meeting of the American Mathematical Society, the remote use of a computer over a communications line. The computer was a relay calculator designed to carry out arithmetic on complex numbers. The terminal was a Model 26 Teletype. | thomas e kurz, basic 1978

ieee has a story on rough concensus and running code and the osi standards war" by andrew l. russell | ieee annals of the history of computing july-september 2006

less on europe and osi, but us centric.

Communications Garden: has been used by the Arizona police department to predict links in criminal social networks, based on semantic analysis of communication contents | analyzing actors ...