50 yrs. ago today

[Warner Losh]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 4:38 PM Rich Alderson via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

NCP was the immediate predecessor of TCP/IP. Was that the datagram format,
more or less, 50 years ago?

Warner


> Quit splitting hairs, folks.
>
> New to this list, are you?
>
>                                                                 Rich
>