[ih] birth of the Internet?

Scott Brim sbrim at cisco.com
Thu Oct 28 10:47:54 PDT 2010


On 10/28/2010 12:53 EDT, Larry Press wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Does NSFNet figure into this discussion at all?
> 
> Would it be fair to say that NSFNet grew up to be The Internet, where
> some of the other things being mentioned were experiments or
> developments in internetworking?

I wouldn't say that.  Yes NSFNet spawned or inspired children that ended
up dominating the development of the Internet but IMHO "the Internet"
existed long before.



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