[chapter-delegates] How about a World Internet Day?

[Marie-Anne Delahaut]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Baker [mailto:fred at cisco.com] 
> Sent: vendredi 20 mai 2005 21:36
> To: Ramon Morales
> Cc: Robert Kahn; 'Alejandro Pisanty'; andreu at veabaro.info; 
> braden at isi.edu; 'Vinton G. Cerf'; chapter-delegates at lists.isoc.org
> Subject: Re: [chapter-delegates] How about a World Internet Day?
> 
> 
> > I believe it would be a great idea to establish a World 
> Internet Day 
> > marking some specific event in Internet History or simply 
> celebrating 
> > the Internet's importance.
> 
> We could use the date of the first attempted login from UCLA to PARC:
> 
> 	Scene: Bob Braden is sitting at a computer keyboard near an IMP 
> connected to the one-and-only
> 	line in the Internet, which runs at 9600 bps. He is 
> surrounded by 
> expectant onlookers. Via
> 	telephone, they are connected to Xerox Palo Alto 
> Research Center 
> (PARC), where the *other*
> 	IMP and computer are. They plan to attempt to log into 
> said computer. 
> Bob speaks into the phone:
> 
> 	Braden: "I'm about to send an 'L'"
> 	voice:  "copy, you are about to send an 'L'"
> 		--- click ---
> 	Braden: "I sent the 'L'"
> 	voice:  "we saw the 'L'"
> 
> 	Braden: "I'm about to send an 'O'"
> 	voice:  "copy, you are about to send an 'O'"
> 		--- click ---
> 	Braden: "I sent the 'O'"
> 	voice:  "we saw the 'O'"
> 
> 	Braden: "I'm about to send an 'G'"
> 	voice:  "copy, you are about to send an 'G'"
> 		--- click ---
> 	Braden: "I sent the 'G'"
> 	voice:  "hang on... the computer crashed..."
> 
> Per Len Kleinrock, the first message sent over the Internet :^)
>