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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. The Internet was up well before 1983 by Animats · · Score: 5, Interesting
    The Internet was up well before 1 JAN 1983. That was just the date that the old ARPANET NCP people had to switch over. I had machines on the Internet more than 20 years ago, and so did others.

    Here's an Internet host list from 1981:

    • Date: 5 Oct 1981 1358-PDT

    • From: POSTEL at USC-ISIF
      To: mike.bmd70 at BRL

      27-May-81 16:52 JBP

      GATEWAYS

      • DCEC-EDN/ARPA
      • MIT-LCS/ARPA
      • BBN-RCC/ARPA
      • BBN-SAT/ARPA
      • NDRE-SAT/ARPA
      • COMSAT-SAT/COMSAT
      • UCL-SAT/UCL
      • UCL-SAT/NULL
      • UCL-UCL/RSRE
      • RSRE-NULL/PPSN
      • RSRE-NULL/PPSN
      • SRI-PR1/ARPA
      • SRI-PR2/ARPA
      • BBN-BBNPR/ARPA
      • Bragg-BraggPR/ARPA

      COMPUTERS

      • ALTA-COMA
      • BBN-UNIX
      • BBN-VAX
      • BBNA
      • BBNB
      • BBNC
      • BBND
      • BBNE
      • BBNF
      • BBNG
      • EDN-HOST1
      • EDN-HOST3
      • EDN-UNIX
      • ISIB
      • ISIC
      • ISID
      • ISIE
      • ISIF
      • MIT-DevMultics
      • MIT-Multics
      • UCLA-CCN 3033
  2. Re:Reminising by zaren · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My first collection of bookmarks was scrawled on paper, and titled "Servers", since none of us had heard of "Bookmarks" yet.

    My collection was scrawled on the labels of various 1.4 meg floppies. This was back when archie was still popular, and my primary method of Internet access was dialing into my college's Prime mainframe (before most people knew they could get Internet access through their Fortran programming account) with a 2400 bps modem. I still like the sound of a 2400 connecting the best :)

    --
    Come to the University of Mars! Classes starting soon!
  3. Ah, I remember getting my first CRT. . . by kfg · · Score: 4, Interesting

    and thinking, " You know, someday this will be in color, and text will be WYSIWYG and the screen will look like *paper*, with black text."

    I was a visionary in my 30's. And I was right. We got it, and it was good, in fact it was awsome.

    I was also a naive twit in my 30's. Nowadays I've "devolved" into reading mail in text mode using mutt. Dark background, white 80 column text you can read from halfway across a thirty foot room, and it's good. In fact, it's awsome.

    A CRT isn't paper. Different rules apply. Your eyes, and the eyes of your readers, will thank you for realizing this.

    Ah well, at least it's better than those websites that print black text on a textured navy blue background.

    KFG