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>As you note, telephones have changed a lot, and communications 
>generally.  Some people were still sending telegrams in 1969.  And 
>no Internet!

<nitpick alert>

Actually, late 1969 was the period in which BBN built and deployed 
the initial hardware and software which formed the foundation of 
ARPANET which was the progenitor to the Internet as we know it today.

There were initially four nodes: UCLA, Stanford, University of Utah, 
and UC Santa Barbara, all interconnected by December. The east coast 
had a connection in early 1970, when BBN (in Cambridge, MA) added 
themselves to the network.

Growth was slow, here's a logical map of arpanet in 1977 - 
<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Arpnet-map-march-1977.png>

Now, to be fair, TCP networking, which is what the modern Internet 
relies on for networking didn't come around until 1973, commemorated 
by a plaque at Stanford - 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Birth_of_the_Internet.jpg>. 
ARPANET didn't fully switch over to TCP/IP until sometime in the 
early 80s and the rest has been pretty much downhill from there.

So, yeah, technically the Internet didn't quite exist, but it was 
birthed about the same time as landing on the moon.

</nitpick>

:)

-bw.
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