50 yrs. ago today

[Rich Alderson]

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