If I remember correctly, Janet was "Joint Academic Network" a university
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> I guess if we are being pedantic, we should start talking about Janet, an=
d
> Arpanet, but life is just too short.

My mental traceback always stops at ARPANET. Janet I know not. More to lear=
n
....

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Hmm. Al's Research Project Network.
Some interest
http://repository.upenn.edu/dissertations/AAI9503730/
Writer being named Janet brought my search here.

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A whole slew of xxxNETs here.
Some pre-dating JANET

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet-switched_network

JANET was the UK academic and research network, linking all
universities, higher education establishments, publicly funded
research laboratories. The X.25 network was based mainly on GEC 4000
series switches, and run X.25 links at up to 8 Mbit/s in its final
phase before being converted to an IP based network. The JANET network
grew out of the 1970s SRCnet (later called SERCnet) network.

So SRCNet / SERCNet precursor.

History of Internet
Starts at 1836
Cooke & Wheatstone.
http://www.netvalley.com/archives/mirrors/davemarsh-timeline-1.htm

Get your unpublished Doctoral Dissertation here

   http://en.scientificcommons.org/42234973

       REFERENCES Abbate, Janet. (1994). From ARPANET to Internet: A
history of ARPA-sponsored computer networks, 1966- (2008)

But, the link is broken :-(.

ACM for $
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3D221201



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