From: Liam Proven Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 10:01 AM > On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 at 17:32, Chuck Guzis via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> 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