[ih] Early Internet history

[Vint Cerf]

BITNET and USENET eventually linked to INTERNET by way of email relays.

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On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 8:09 AM, Scott O. Bradner <sob at sobco.com> wrote:

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> > On Jul 6, 2018, at 12:45 AM, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman at meetinghouse.net>
> wrote:
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> > And, I believe that both USENET (or at least UUCP) and BITNET predated
> > the TCP/IP cutover by a couple of years.  They were both decentralized
> > and "operated independently but cooperatively by more than one
> > organization."
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> TCP/IP - developed in mid 1970s
> BITNET - founded 1981 by Ira Fuchs
> USENET - established in 1980 by Tom Truscott
>         (UUCP was the file copy protocol not the system)
> TCP/IP cutover - 1983
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