Until recently, a computer was a person that did calculations. I suspect that if they we smart enough to do the calculations they were smart enough to talk to each other. Dwight
________________________________ From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> on behalf of ED SHARPE via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 12:11 PM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Subject: Re: 50 yrs. ago today I will have to see if our old next boots! -Ed# In a message dated 10/29/2019 10:01:21 AM US Mountain Standard Time, cctalk@classiccmp.org writes: 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