[SKRIVA] Före Internet...
- From: Ahrvid <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 01:32:20 +0100
Det snackas mycket om "sociala medier", dvs att många kan sitta och prata med
varandra med tekniska medel (som på SKRIVA, men det vore kul om fler pratade!).
Men fenomenet är inte nytt, utan mer än 100 år gammalt!
Irving Vermilya med vänner satte under 1900-talets första år upp ett
telegrafnätverk i sin hemstad Mount Vernon, USA, där 40-talet ungdomar satt och
knattrade till varandra via telegrafnyckel. Artikel här och utdrag:
http://earlyradiohistory.us/1917tg.htm
"For about a year I plugged away at the Morse code--determined that I was going
to be an operator any way. I got another fellow, Fred Skinner, interested in
the regular telegraph line, and April 8, 1903, we stretched our first line
between our houses, Progress was slow, until one day, the nurse girl who took
care of my younger brother, came home with a new fellow--a telegraph operator.
Well, I thought "Three cheers, I'm going to get this fellow to stick around." I
sang his praises to our nurse, told her what a good scout he was, etc. etc.
Finally he brought two new telegraph instruments,--a brand new 150 ohms
resistance main line sounders and keys. We immediately threw our small four ohm
learners set in the discard.
In the course of time, this line grew considerably, as my many friends can
vouch for. Fellows, it was some line. After three or four years, it had grown
to be six miles long, and had forty-two different fellows and girls on it. It
stretched from one end of the city to the other. It even ran under ground for a
distance of two and a half miles. But such a wire! I'm almost ashamed to relate
it. It was made out of copper, iron, brass, and aluminum. Some parts of it were
insulated, and other parts were not. And not a soldered joint.
We stretched this wire--(I say we, but it should be I, as I was elected
wire chief, and for fear of getting pinched, I had full care of it) on trees,
telephone poles, over trolley wires, and on back fences. Needless to say, the
line was working day and night. Some one of the bunch always used it. It was
the custom for every one to say "good morning" and then sign off his or her
call letters, when we got out of bed, and "good night" before retiring. Some of
the operators kept scandalous hours. In fact, some said "GN" after our early
risers had said "GM" for the next day. So you see, some of the night hawks were
constantly a day behind themselves. New Year's night was always great on this.
We would hear some fellow going to bed at 8:00 a.m. next morning, after we had
heard our other early risers say "GM" at 5:00 a.m. I always kept my instrument
cut in, and thought nothing of hearing my pal, Milo White, say "GN" three
o'clock in the morning. We always knew when any of the fellows had been out
with any of the girls on our line, as we would hear them chewing the visit over
after he got home and while she was getting ready to retire. Then the final
"Well, good night, dear."
We formed a company of all the members on this line, to help bear the
expense, and held regular monthly meetings at each other's homes. "
Ett "mini-Internet" över telegraflinjer där ungdomar satt och chattade.
Imponerande!
Och apropå Internet, förresten. Före de första fyra Internet-noderna kom
"on-line" 1969, ordnat av ARPA och snart kallat ARPAnet, hade amerikanska
militären ett annat nät med elektronisk post m m kallat "Autodin", vilket stod
för "AUTOmatic DIgital Network" (och innan dess hade man ett teleprinternät
kallat "Plan 55"). Här finns mer om Autodin, som användes på 50-och 60-talet:
http://www.computerculture.org/2012/02/recalling-the-autodin-part-i/
TCP/IP användes förstås inte, men det var ett datorkommunikationsnät och man
kunde skicka E-post och datorerna upptog hela rum, och den enklaste komponent i
ett datorsystem var som ett stort skåp.
--Ahrvid
Ps. Även Facebook fanns förr i tiden! Det är ju bara helt enkelt en benämning
för årsvisa amerikanska skolkataloger, där alla eleverna dyker upp med ett
ansiktsfoto (vilket många kanske sett flaxa förbi i amerikanska filmer).
"Ansiktsbok", helt enkelt. Det var som en elektronisk skolkatalog företaget
Facebook startade.
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