29 Oct
2019
29 Oct
'19
10 a.m.
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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