[ih] Origination date for the Internet

[Louis Mamakos]

Comsat was Comsat Labs, and that network was instigated by Dave Mills.  Though not on the picture, at around that time we had a had a low speed connection to one of Dave's fuzzballs[1] in his swamp at Comsat, at the University of Maryland with a few fuzzballs of our own on the other end.

Louis Mamakos

[1] http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/gallery/gallery10.html


On Oct 28, 2010, at 6:35 PM, Guy Almes wrote:

> Bob,
>  In this Feb-82 map, it looks like the ARPAnet and SATnet are the two key wide-area networks.  What was COMSAT?  Are all the rest LANs?
> 	-- Guy
> 
> On 10/28/10 5:04 PM, Bob Hinden wrote:
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>> On Oct 28, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
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>>> 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 :-)
>>>> 
>>> 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?
>> 
>> There was a set of operational gateways from the Arpanet to Satnet to gateways at UCL, RSRE, and NDRE, MIT, SRI, SAC, Ft. Bragg, etc.   There is a picture dated 25 Feb 1982 at:
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>>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Internet_map_in_February_82.jpg
>> 
>> This was started earlier, but I don't have an exact date.
>> 
>> Bob
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