Now that I’m affiliated with Harvard I get to use their libraries, which is exciting enough. I took this book out of the Widener and holy cow will you look at that. The catalog record doesn’t say anything about it being signed. They do not even know what they have.

The authors of this 1987 NASA report also "endorse the TCP/IP protocol as the standard to be used"... for now. But recommend "the eventual migration to the ISO/OSI protocol when practical." We're still waiting. For a while, it really seemed like OSI was going to win that standards war.

Here's a paleofuture for you. I'm reading a NASA report from 1987, as one does. There was a survey done at the @aas.org & @casca.ca.web.brid.gy 1987 joint meeting. Among other things, it asked what "remote data access network" was used on respondents' campuses. BITNET was the clear winner.

Looking through some old National Academies Press reports and came across this absurdly melodramatic cover doi.org/10.17226/4765