50 yrs. ago today

[Chuck Guzis]

On 10/29/19 5:50 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. via cctalk wrote:

> The ARPAnet was a WAN (wide area network) and not an Internet, but it
> was one of the three networks involved in that first test on November
> 22, 1977 (after a two network test the previous year). The option to use
> TCP/IP in addition to the native NCP became popular on the ARPAnet to
> the point that NCP was turned off in 1983. It was hardly the only
> network to get assimilated into the Internet, but it was the one with
> the most impact. That makes the 50th anniversary of the first ARPAnet
> packet an important milestone in Internet pre-history.

Doesn't AUTODIN precede ARPAnet by a few years?

--Chuck