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As mentioned before, in the 1980s Petri took part in the early development of the ARPA-net, the predecessor of the Internet. In view of the novelty of such a network, by which computers were to be connected on a large scale for the first time, new questions and problems naturally arose, from purely technical ones like physical connection issues, to questions concerning the handling of the net by the individuals involved. Through networking, computers now indeed turned into media of communication, so that the notion communication with automata in Petri’s thesis finally could be understood in the sense of communication by means of automata, regardless of whether this was intended from the beginning or not.
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Smith, E. (2015). Communication Disciplines. In: Carl Adam Petri. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48093-9_9
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