50 yrs. ago today

[ED SHARPE]

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 at 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