[1040] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Text of chron-nren
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik E. Fair" (Your Friendly Postm)
Mon Jul 22 19:46:03 1991
From: "Erik E. Fair" (Your Friendly Postmaster) <fair@apple.com>
In-Reply-To: <9107222324.AA01639@daisy.uchicago.edu>
To: francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 91 16:45:06 -0700
The Internet is a direct decendant of the ARPANET (R.I.P.) which was
built beginning in 1969 by DARPA. IMP #1 is still at UCLA, on display
or something. If you want to see what ARPANET was like about 7 or 8
years ago, go see MILNET (network 26).
So, yes, the Internet is over 20 years old.
Erik E. Fair apple!fair fair@apple.com
