The Internet & our hobby

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Sat Oct 24 12:53:56 CDT 2015


>    > Well, it is not correct when we then include that it is 43 years old...
>    > Internets using TCP/IP is a bit over 30 years old, but not over 40.

On Sat, 24 Oct 2015, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> Good point! {Does a little math in his head...} 43 years, that gives us 1972.
> The OP was clearly thinking of the ARPANET. Which as I have mentioned, was
> _very_ different from TCP/IP, inside.

OR, he made a simple trivial typo or calculation typo, and meant 33, 
instead of 43.  That would place us in 1982, which is about right for TCP/IP.





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