Re: Comments re the packet radio discussion
Nigel Roberts via Internet-history <[email protected]>
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In (some parts of? London there were (I think) up to four deliveries per day. As a very small child in the 1960s I (very vaguely) remember there being a morning and an afternoon post in our village in the N. of England. On 4/30/26 22:16, Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history wrote: > On 27-Apr-26 14:13, Bob Purvy via Internet-history wrote: >> I once heard that in Victorian England, at least some parts of it, the >> post >> was delivered four times a day. > > That was certainly the case within London, but it wouldn't work intercity. > (The Penny Post was introduced in 1840.) > > There are surviving letters between Babbage and Lovelace, for example, that > indicate quite rapid interaction. But they were rich people who could > likely > order a servant to deliver a letter on demand. > > I seem to remember that some Sherlock Holmes stories indicate very rapid > postal deliveries within London. > > Brian > >> Thus you *could* carry on a lengthy debate >> with someone that only took a few days. Does anyone have a link to data >> like that? >> >> I was also wondering what the average time was to get a Reply to a >> question >> under that system. Nowadays it *might *be only seconds sometimes, but >> for a >> lot of people the average email response time is still measured in days. >> >> On Sun, Apr 26, 2026 at 12:46 AM Yannis KOROVESIS/COROVESIS via >> Internet-history <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Going further back than the Victorians wikipedia has the following about >>> "fryktoria" (translated from the Greek original ) as you suspect: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> https://el-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/ >>> %CE%A6%CF%81%CF%85%CE%BA%CF%84%CF%89%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%B1? >>> _x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=el&_x_tr_pto=wapp >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Yannis >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Apr 22, 2026, at 5:14 PM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> I recently visited Tom Standage’s blog post about The Victorian >>> Internet < >>> https://tomstandage.wordpress.com/books/the-victorian-internet/> and >>> noticed that he mentioned that Andrew Odlyzko < >>> https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~odlyzko/> had read it. Odlyzko’s name >>> also came up in some literature about the origins of Tier 1 ISPs. He >>> used >>> to post here occasionally. You might find some of the Internet system >>> level analysis you’re looking for in his papers. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> --gregbo >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Internet-history mailing list >>> >>> [email protected] >>> >>> https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history >>> >>> - >>> >>> Unsubscribe: >>> https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/9b6ef0621638436ab0a9b23cb0668b0b? >>> The%20list%20to%20be%20unsubscribed%20from=Internet-history >>> -- >>> Internet-history mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history >>> - >>> Unsubscribe: >>> https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/9b6ef0621638436ab0a9b23cb0668b0b? >>> The%20list%20to%20be%20unsubscribed%20from=Internet-history >>> -- Dr Nigel Roberts BSc LLB CEng CITP FBCS FRSA, Director CHANNELISLES.NET, Maison Postel, Ollivier St, Alderney GY9 3TD +44 1481 822800 (office) or +44 20 7100 4319 (direct line) +44 7973 263842 (mobile) [email protected] -- Internet-history mailing list [email protected] https://elists.isoc.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history - Unsubscribe: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/9b6ef0621638436ab0a9b23cb0668b0b?The%20list%20to%20be%20unsubscribed%20from=Internet-history