Today it may be difficult even to imagine it, but it has ever been possible to map a whole internet map to just a piece of paper, recalls Gizmodo.
Proof of this is the 1977 scheme, which demonstrates the current state of the network. At that time, ARPANET was still just a huge state-funded research project. In fact, it is astonishing that only the network has managed to develop even as much as eight years since the first network with four knots was built in 1969.
The 1977 map shows the individual locations of the connected computers, which at this stage are owned only by universities such as Stanford and the state.
"The ARPANET program has created a real revolution in computer technology and its full meaning is unlikely to be understood for a long time," he wrote in the accompanying note of January 4, 1978.
How true that is, really.