On Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 4:38 PM Rich Alderson via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 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. > NCP was the immediate predecessor of TCP/IP. Was that the datagram format, more or less, 50 years ago? Warner > Quit splitting hairs, folks. > > New to this list, are you? > > Rich >
