[ih] ARPANet anniversary

[Vint Cerf]

the 3 network demo was nov 22, 1977 according to my records.

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On Nov 2, 2009, at 4:16 PM, Craig Partridge wrote:

>
> Hi Larry:
>
> The 1977 diagram certainly looks like the early Internet.  I know that
> in late 1976 there was router/gateway between SRI and the Packet Radio
> network, between ARPANET and BBN's test network (BBN had an internal
> network using ARPANET technology used to serve BBN and test ARPANET
> code before deployment), and via SATNET at UCL.  Your diagram shows
> one more gateway/router in Norway, which is plausible by 1977.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Craig
>
>>> And speaking of the Internet as a distinct entity, whats it's  
>>> birth-day
>> anyway? I would call it the first day on which a packet was sent  
>> from one
>> host, across a particular kind of network, through a router (or  
>> gateway as we
>> called them back then), across another network, into another host.  
>> (That woul
>> d
>> have been a TCP packet, I guess - no IP back then!) So where and  
>> when was
>> that?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> There was evidently a demonstration of ARPANet, SATNet, and the San  
>> Francisco
>> Bay area packet radio network in October 1977.  Was that the first  
>> public de
>> mo?
>>
>> There is a diagram of the demo network at:
>> http://www.sri.com/about/timeline/images/1977map_000.jpg
>>
>> I include it in a 12-slide teaching presentation on Internet  
>> history at:
>> http://localhost/som/presentations/tcpip/tcphistory2.ppt
>>
>> Any corrections would be appreciated by me and my students.
>>
>> Lar
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