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This column discusses the evolution of networking standards, looking at the history of open standards and the evolution of the communities that designed the Internet, particularly in regards to Andrew Russell's book Open Standards and the Digital Age: History, Ideology, and Networks. In this book, the author weaves two scholarly stories into one—namely, the history of open standards and the evolution...
The following article provides a fast-moving, exciting account of the early days of commercial packet switching in the 1970s, focusing on X.25 and, in particular, on Datapac, the X.25-based Canadian packet switching network. It follows an earlier article in this Column on packet switching in the United Kingdom. We hope to publish additional papers on the history of packet switching from other countries...
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