[ih] birth of the Internet?
Miles Fidelman
mfidelman at meetinghouse.net
Thu Oct 28 12:02:42 PDT 2010
Dave CROCKER wrote:
> NSFNet really qualifies as the /final/ stage of development of the
> Internet, before fully commercial adoption.
As I recall, Roger Fradenburgh had the job of turning off the ARPANET,
at its end-of-life. I was in the next office at BBN when net 10 went
down, and bits just kept humming across the Internet. One of the
sadder moments in Internet history.
Miles
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