From: Liam Proven
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 10:01 AM
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 at 17:32, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 50 years ago, inter-computer communication was common enough that it was
>> a standard option in most vendors' catalogs.
>> Maybe you've got a digit wrong?
> Tim Berners-Lee says it's the 50th anniversary of the first internet
> packets. I believe him more than pretty much anyone.
> It's also in multiple computer news stories today.
> The historic event was comms between heterogenous computers over a
> standardised protocol (IP, I think).
Internet Protocol (IP) was developed in the very late 1970s, with the cutover
of the ARPANET taking place 1/1/83.
Prior to that, the underlying protocol was the one developed by Kleinrock et al.
for the BBN IMP hardware.
> Quit splitting hairs, folks.
New to this list, are you?
Rich
