50 yrs. ago today

[dwight]

Until recently, a computer was a person that did calculations. I suspect that if they we smart enough to do the calculations they were smart enough to talk to each other.
Dwight

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From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of ED SHARPE via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 12:11 PM
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: 50 yrs. ago today

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