[ih] Origination date for the Internet

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On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Bob Braden <braden at isi.edu> wrote:
> It is perhaps fun to identify all the technical milestones during
> R&D on internetworking, on IP, on TCP, on PUP, on packet radios in bread
> trucks, in packet satellites, ... , perhaps even on packet switching, none
> of these seem very germane to the original question -- when did *THE
> Internet* enter service.
>
> Speaking as one of the soldiers in the trenches at the time,
> I have always counted the beginning of THE Internet as Jan 1, 1983. That was
> (to some us, memorable and for Dan Lynch, traumatic)
> the crunch time when we freed ourselves from the good old reliable
> NCP and leapt into the TCP/IP world.  (Was the new thing REALLY
> going to work at some realistic scale?) And we took with us a
> significant population of real network users, which justifies the
> capital I on Internet.
>
> Someone had a T shirt bearing the inscription "I survived Jan 1, 1983" or
> something like that. I wish I had one.
>
> Bob Braden
>
>
>
> On 10/28/2010 9:39 AM, internet-history-request at postel.org wrote:
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>> From: Miles Fidelman<mfidelman at meetinghouse.net>
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>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I've been part of an interesting discussion, on another list, that's led
>> to the question of when the Internet was actually "born."
>>
>> Was it:
>> - when the ARPANET moved from NCP to TCP/IP?
>> - when the ARPANET was split into two, linked backbones (ARPANET/MILNET)?
>> - was there an earlier point at which IP was linking LANs across the
>> ARPANET?
>> - some other event?
>>
>> Miles Fidelman
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