[166535] in North American Network Operators' Group

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post

Re: Happy Birthday, ARPANET!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Tue Oct 29 23:55:35 2013

In-Reply-To: <52707CAC.8080509@trelane.net>
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 23:55:17 -0400
To: Andrew D Kirch <trelane@trelane.net>,nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

<sheldon>
In fact, not quite.

The birthday of the internet proper is generally held to be January 1, 1983, the flag day when tcp/ip was first deployed.
</sheldon>

Andrew D Kirch <trelane@trelane.net> wrote:
>On 10/29/2013 10:51 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>> The Paley Center for Media reminds us that on this day in 1969 at
>2230 PST, the first link was turned up between UCLAs Sigma 7 and SRIs
>940.
>>
>> A photo of the laboratory logbook is included in the Wikipedia
>article:
>>
>> en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
>>
>> Cheers,
>> - jra
>>
>crap, I'm supposed to be keeping a log book?  No one told me... err do
>I 
>have to log _EVERYTHING_ I do online? :/
>
>Happy Birthday, Internet!
>
>Andrew

-- 
Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post