50 yrs. ago today

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 at 17:32, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
<cctalk at 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).

Quit splitting hairs, folks.

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