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The 20th Anniversary of the Internet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-who's-counting dept.

Ross Finlayson writes "In a message posted to the IETF general mailing list, Bob Braden reminds us that, on January 1st, 2003, 20 years will have passed since "the most logical date of origin of the Internet [...] when the ARPANET officially switched from the NCP protocol to TCP/IP". And the rest is history..."

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  1. NCP and TCP/IP by Devil's+BSD · · Score: -1, Informative

    For those not "in the know", NCP is the Netware Core Protocol, which in this case used IPX (Internetwork Packet X-change) underneath it all to talk between computers. This was ideal for relatively small networks like ARPANet.
    On the other side, TCP/IP sort of two protocols: Transfer Control Protocol over Internet Protocol. They're actually layered. TCP/IP is more ideal for big huge networks like the Internet. Then we get into the discussion about IP v4 and IP v6, which I will leave someone else to talk about.

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    1. Re:NCP and TCP/IP by Russ+Steffen · · Score: 5, Informative

      Ummm, no.

      While NCP can also mean Netware Core Protcol, in this case it means "Network Control Protocol", a much older protocol that dates back to the beginning of the ARPAnet circa 1970, and has squat to do with Netware.

      NCP is documented in RFCs 55, 60, 215 and several others.

  2. Re:Al Gore is celebrating by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    After all this time one would think that this ridiculous, ignorant, petty Republican FUD would have been laughed out of existence. For the nth time, read it and this time please try to understand:

    http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nett im e-bold-0009/msg00161.html

    Couple of significant quotes from Bob Kahn and Vint Cert:

    "VC> Bob and I believe that the vice president deserves significant credit for
    VC> his early recognition of the importance of what has become the Internet."

    "...But as the two people
    >who designed the basic architecture and the core protocols that make the
    >Internet work, we would like to acknowledge VP Gore's contributions as a
    >Congressman, Senator and as Vice President. No other elected official, to
    >our knowledge, has made a greater contribution over a longer period of
    >time."

    So yes, Al Gore did take a position of leadership in the creation of the Internet. He helped keep penny-pinching nearsighted legislators from killing it, because he was one of the few people in power who "got it". /rant

    Happy new year everyone!

  3. Re:Reminising by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    scott yanoff's list, baby, that's where it all was!