Wikipedia:Peer review/History of the Internet/archive1
History of the Internet[edit]
This article has problems with the representation of other input to the creation of the Internet outside of that of ARPANET. There is a major dispute between if ARPANET is the sole major contributor to the cultural aspect of the Internet, and if the UUCPNET and comercial X.25 networks made significant contributions to a worldwide network. It needs substantial expansion on non ARPANET issues, internet culture and non technical history. --John R. Barberio talk, contribs 21:42, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
- Hi Barberio, it seems that this article is currently in the middle of an NPOV dispute, and so Peer review is not the right place. Informally, just looking it over, it is severely lacking in stuff on the European side, such as JANET. In general, the real problem is that the article seems rather unclear as to what it is describing: the origin of the physical structures? The emergence of internet "culture" (in which case it would have to cover things like BBSes, from which big chunks of internet culture today emerged? The origin of the software and protocols? (e.g., the article seems to discuss things like e-mail, aka, the SMTP protocol.) These various questions are answered only partly, in a confused order. Sdedeo 03:13, 6 September 2005 (UTC)