[ih] Origination date for the Internet

[Vint Cerf]

beats me - 3COM was in operation by then and Berkeley BSD 4.x had also
been released, right?

v


On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 6:19 PM, Guy Almes <galmes at tamu.edu> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> Of course during 1982 many ARPANET sites came up on TCP/IP in parallel
>> with NCP.
>>
>> v
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Miles Fidelman
>> <mfidelman at meetinghouse.net>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Bob,
>>>
>>> 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 :-)
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
>>> In<fnord>    practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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