[ih] Eric Allman giving a public talk on the history of email

[John Day]

I was wondering when someone was going to speak up.  This history of email seems to start pretty late in the game.

> On Oct 4, 2021, at 09:56, Miles Fidelman via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> Bill Woodcock via Internet-history wrote:
>> A bit of background:  On January 1, 1983, the Internet was born from the ashes of the ARPAnet,
> Ashes?
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> More like built on the foundation of the ARPANET.  Or grew around the scaffolding of the ARPANET?
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> In 1983, the ARPANET was very much, the backbone of the Internet. Jan 1, 1983 - the TCP/IP "Flag Day," marks the day that TCP/IP became the required standard for ... wait for it ... the ARPANET.
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> The supercomputer networks, and NSFnet were yet to come.
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> And then, the ARPANET didn't so much burn, as fade away - to be turned off in 1990.  The guy in the office next to mine, at BBN, was actually the project engineer for the final decommissioning.
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> (Doesn't anybody know any, ... "Internet History" here?)
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> Miles Fidelman
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