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

[Vinton G. Cerf]

This was not from UCLA to Parc.  It was from UCLA to SRI International

And it was Charley Kline at UCLA talking to someone, don't know who, at SRI.

And this was NOT the Internet - it was the ARPANET.

Vint



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marie-Anne Delahaut [mailto:delahaut.marie-anne at wallonie-isoc.org]
> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 4:48 PM
> To: 'Fred Baker'; '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?
> 
> 
> 
> > -----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 :^)
> >