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Infrastructure, Representation, and Historiography in BBN’s Arpanet Maps
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
- IEEE Computer Society
- Volume 38, Number 3, July-September 2016
- pp. 44-57
- 10.1353/ahc.2016.0033
- Article
- Additional Information
The earliest and most widespread representation of the Arpanet were network graphs or maps that, arguably, remain its most prominent artifact. In an earlier article, the authors analyzed how the maps were created, what they represented, and how histories of the network parallel their emphases and omissions. Here, they begin a retooling of the maps to highlight further what is missing from them: flows, gateways, and hierarchy.