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

[Vinton G. Cerf]

I would agree with Bob.

The conception comes in 1973, the birth in 1983 and the public coming out in 1993

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Braden [mailto:braden at ISI.EDU]
> Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 8:14 PM
> To: Veni Markovski; Fred Baker; Marie-Anne Delahaut
> Cc: 'Alejandro Pisanty'; chapter-delegates at lists.isoc.org; andreu at veabaro.info; 'Ramon Morales'; 'Robert Kahn';
> 'Vinton G. Cerf'
> Subject: Re: [chapter-delegates] How about a World Internet Day?
> 
> 
> >
> >
> >There are many milestones so I think an attempt to celebrate a birthday is
> >hard.
> >For Internet one might reasonably pick 1/1/1983 as the date the system was
> >deployed on all of the networks supported by DARPA.
> >[cut]
> 
> For those of us involved with making the Internet happen, I expect that Jan
> 1, 1983 is the true birth of the Internet as a
> network of networks using TCP/IP, and operational as  opposed to experimental.
> 
> Bob Braden