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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