ARPANET

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 Poor Dennis managed to muck up  the spelling when he mentioned ARPANET in this weeks missive  while referencing the passing of RAYMOND TOMLINSON.
We had one of the other pioneers as a member of our engineering team
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Spencer
http://www.giganews.com/usenet-history/spencer.html
He wrote some of the original  RFC specs and had the forethought to archive the original newsgroups back then, the only reason we can Google  that stuff today.