<div><div dir="auto">The biggest milestone might not yet have come.</div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 7:00 PM Dave Crocker <<a href="mailto:dhc@dcrocker.net">dhc@dcrocker.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 11/5/2019 2:38 PM, Joly MacFie wrote:<br>
> When was the first actual inter-network message sent using packet <br>
> technology?<br>
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Might be interesting to seek some agreement about the biggest milestones <br>
for creating what we experience as the Internet.<br>
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First, what are the criteria for a milestone? Conceptualization? <br>
Demonstration? A degree of production operation? Mass market adoption?<br>
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Second, what are the easy milestones: packet switching and TCP/IP are <br>
obvious. What others? (I'm entirely biases towards wanting major <br>
applications to be added but, well, I'm biased.)<br>
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Third, what are some less obvious but still essential milestones? I'll <br>
suggest NSFNet because it enabled both a standard for multiple <br>
backbonbes and an operational approach to infrastructure that became the <br>
foundation for the commercial Internet.<br>
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Thoughts?<br>
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Dave Crocker<br>
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