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The Production and Interpretation of ARPANET Maps
- IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
- IEEE Computer Society
- Volume 37, Number 1, January-March 2015
- pp. 44-55
- Article
- Additional Information
A 20-year series of ARPANET maps produced by the firm Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) signifies the earliest efforts to represent an early and central piece of the modern Internet. Once a functional tool for engineers, they now serve as an aesthetic backdrop used without explicit recognition of their intended purpose.