29 Oct
2019
29 Oct
'19
11:39 a.m.
From: Liam Proven
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 10:01 AM
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).
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