[ih] Origination date for the Internet

[Guy Almes]

Vint et al.,
   I wonder about how many (mostly departmental) LANs were running 
TCP/IP and connected to the ARPAnet by 1-Jan-83?

   	-- Guy

On 10/28/10 4:44 PM, Vint Cerf wrote:
> actually ISI tracked TCP/IP capability during 1982; the primary
> regular use was from Europe, especially the UK, prior to january 1983;
> by then there LANS connecting to the ARPANET by way of gateways
> (Proteon was around with its rings - Noel Chiappa is that correct?).
> Then came Cisco but i guess after 1984.
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> Of course during 1982 many ARPANET sites came up on TCP/IP in parallel
> with NCP.
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> v
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> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Miles Fidelman
> <mfidelman at meetinghouse.net>  wrote:
>> Bob,
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>> Bob Hinden wrote:
>>>
>>> I still have my "I Survived the TCP Transition 1/1/83" red button.
>>>
>>> In my view this was the time when the Internet became operational as
>>> people starting using it for their day to day work, instead of a set of
>>> researchers.  Conception and birth occurred earlier :-)
>>>
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>> Actually, that raises another interesting question: At what point, prior to
>> 1/1/83, if any, was there a minimal set of networks, gateways, and end
>> systems that were passing IP packets on an ongoing basis - as opposed to
>> being cobbled together to run some experiment or other, and then brought
>> back down?  Can we isolate a date when IP packets started flowing and never
>> stopped?
>>
>> Miles
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>> --
>> In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
>> In<fnord>    practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra
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