Artificial intelligence researcher Peter E. Hart remembers a time when computer networking was an arcane subject that non-users were still trying to wrap their minds around. In an anecdote sent to The New York Times , he recounts being subjected to an audit of his ARPAnet-linked AI center's incoming bits — including questions about whether any of the 2.5 billion packets arrived with "corrosion or tarnish." It's a tiny, but excellent, piece of early internet history.
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/26/3804590/an-early-bit-audit-on-arpanet
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