[ih] Internet-history Digest, Vol 2, Issue 16

[Steve Crocker]

The biggest milestone might not yet have come.

On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 7:00 PM Dave Crocker <dhc at dcrocker.net> wrote:

> On 11/5/2019 2:38 PM, Joly MacFie wrote:
> > When was the first actual inter-network message sent using packet
> > technology?
>
>
> Might be interesting to seek some agreement about the biggest milestones
> for creating what we experience as the Internet.
>
>
> First, what are the criteria for a milestone?  Conceptualization?
> Demonstration?  A degree of production operation?  Mass market adoption?
>
> Second, what are the easy milestones: packet switching and TCP/IP are
> obvious.  What others?  (I'm entirely biases towards wanting major
> applications to be added but, well, I'm biased.)
>
> Third, what are some less obvious but still essential milestones?  I'll
> suggest NSFNet because it enabled both a standard for multiple
> backbonbes and an operational approach to infrastructure that became the
> foundation for the commercial Internet.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> d/
>
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