Lori Emerson on Nostr: I've been trying to figure out how I might organize the next volume of ...

I've been trying to figure out how I might organize the next volume of #othernetworks, assuming a publisher might be interested. the pre-internet networks I described in Other Networks (1) are organized by underlying infrastructure (wired, wireless, hybrid, etc). but! As soon as I started to try to work through digital computer from the late 1960s and on, the taxonomy started to creak, heave, and crack as every network sooner or later involved both wired and wireless technologies/infrastructures. more, I had wanted to exclude networks that existed on the internet, which I (foolishly) defined as networks that used TCP/IP. but then I found out from you all that one can use TCP/IP to run a network outside of the internet! SO, the question that has been plaguing is how I might organize volume 2 of Other Networks so that I can take a stab at cataloging all those incredible networks (LANs, BBSes, computer conferences, etc) from the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s. this is my long-winded way of saying: maybe the answer is a book called Other Protocols!