[ih] Early Internet history

[Miles Fidelman]

On 7/6/18 5:09 AM, Scott O. Bradner 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."
> 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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To Jack's question:  Does that count as "before the Internet?" 
(Inquiring minds want to know!)

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