from oeec, organisation for european economic co-operation, 1948, to oecd, 1961, to eirma, 1966, a truly european club, again.

klaus heinrich standke

first eirma conference 1967 in lund: gap in technology between europe and the us.

le monde recalls cyclade

The election of president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing rang the final bell for the delegation of Computer science and subsequently for the interest in Cyclades. “They told us in essence: “Fellow researchers, you have done a good job, but now, you have to let industry take over,” the engineer recalls. For the peoples who were in charge at that time, it was clear that this research was finished. Instead, they told us that we needed to find applications in order to “computerize the society.”

today pouzin chairs the idea of a multilingual internet and is called at nlic as "godfather of the internet". another one. now i know two of them. would be interesting to bring them together, to lean back and to listen.

i forgot what picture the sendung mit der maus was using to describe packet switching and routing, yet the best comes from the archive:

Paul Baran proposed a mesh network of computers joined by communication circuits that handled digitized speech in short burst. The mesh form of the network gave many alternative paths between any two subscribers trying to communciate with each other, and an adaptive routing method called the hot potato technique was proposed to give reliable communication; even if parts of the network were destroyed by enemy attack while calls were in progress. Only when no possible path remained were two subscribers prevented from conversing. | donald davies, derek barber: communication networks for computers, wiley, 1973

the original: hot potato routing

just in case you need to explain networking to your procreation one day.