Astrology of ARPANET, first prototype of the internet. Comments welcome.
While I was investigating the development of the internet in the 1990s, I found the data for the first-ever transmission on the world's first WAN — ARPANET.
This started with meeting some very cool Zoomers.
Greetings,
For the past couple of weeks, working at honky-tonks, dives and diners, I’ve been investigating the astrology of the 1990s — the decade I began as an astrologer. I was inspired to do this after meeting the sons of my friend Jon Cohen, and their friends, most of whom were born in the early 2000s.
They are all extraordinary, talented and well-spoken young men, whom I’ve happily discovered can keep up with any conversation, and have much to teach me.
The 1990s were about the development of the commercial internet.
The astrology of the 1990s is essential to understanding what is called Gen Z (a/k/a Zoomers), which I take to mean births from about 1997 through about 2005. This inquiry has been great fun, and I’ll have more to say about it soon, beginning with a class on 1990s astrology. (It’s all right there in the figure for the inauguration of Bill Clinton, a chart which says “call the bomb squad.”)
Through the 1990s, the internet infrastructure and data volume were growing exponentially. Finally, I understand the true meaning of Uranus-Neptune square Eris in 1993 — a defining aspect of our lifetimes.
I was working on a similar “generation” project for people born in the 1950s but decided to do something for the kids. Generational astrology is one of its most interesting branches, and if you’re into the subject, please do let me know.
And now, getting to my main point — ARPANET…
Today, grousing around the topic of the internet, I bumped into the data for the opening of ARPANET. As my meeting with the shipwright isn’t till later this evening, I spent a couple of hours working on this chart today, purely for fun, and for the kids, and thought I would share it with you — and seek your comments.
Anyone with knowledge of the history of ARPANET is welcome to comment. I am also looking for those with experience in the history of BITNET, as well as those who can say more about the development of the commercial internet in the 1990s.
The second half of 1969 was an extraordinary time in history, for every reason, from Woodstock to Neil Young walking on the Moon. Astrological discussion of that era is welcome, in addition to tales and legends of ARPANET (which served two decades and was decommissioned in 1990).
Here is the chart.
Chart Notes
You can see that Eris is is prominent in this chart, as is Chiron close to the Aries Point. The Sun is conjunct Apollo (making the same mistakes over and over). Atlantis is opposite Pholus — the genie is coming out of the bottle.
You can see the remnants of the Jupiter-Uranus conjunction in Libra that defines 1969 so many ways, especially Michael Jackson doing the Moonwalk in July and Woodstock in August.
Note to astrology students: in the center of the circle, I have the program draw in the minor aspects only (a few too many here). Anyone can see the major aspects (a/k/a Ptolmeic aspects, those known to Ptolemy), which I then delineate in pencil. You can easily spot aspects like the square, trine and opposition because the numbers match up; study the chart and you will see this.
It’s more difficult to spot the minor angles, hence, I leave those in the inside circle. The most important from a mundane astrology standpoint are the sesquiquadrate (135 degrees) and the semi-square (45 degrees), both considered trigger aspects — they seem to make something happen. This is in a way similar to the square, but subtler. Here is a legend.
VIA EMAIL - FROM STEVE FALCONER
I know that the original internet was called the Æthernet, or AIMNA, Aether Intelligent Messaging Network Architecture, because it's physically impossible to return 50 million Google search results in .63 seconds through wires, hubs and millions of servers over 24,000 miles in every direction through conventional laws of wave and electric current physics, even at the speed of light. We speculated a few years ago that that's because they are possibly actually using an instant ætheric technology they aren't telling us about...like tug of war. Why call it the Æthernet otherwise? You're in China...I'm in America...you pull the rope and my hands pull instantly with you...because we are connected instantly and physically (or metaphysically in the case of the Æther)...through the rope...no 11,600 km delay in the tension energy of a wave transfer over time and distance...but instantly, like a unified all-encompassing instant unified potential plasma-based magnetic network of infinite ropes-like a connective spider web field modality in all and infinite directions...commonly called the "butterfly effect" or as bogus quantum physics claims, you and I are in the same place at the same time because your pull on the same rope we are both holding forces me to counter that pull immediately, even though you're in China and I'm in America..."quantum entangled together in time and space". Okey dokey.
Hahahahaha!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeYWjNhZ_JY
I do have experience with the ARPANET's history. The picture you have is 1972, but it's not the first topology, which only had 4 nodes. The best book is "When Wizards Stay Up Late" as well as Annie Johnson's "DARPA: The Pentagon's Brain." Critical to understanding ARPANET development are RFC's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments). The first ARPANET didn't run on TCP-IP, which was invented by Vint Cerf in 1974 (what a cool name). Another great book is 1989's "The Cuckoo's Egg" by Clif Stoll.