[1046] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
re: Text of chron-nren
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Partridge)
Tue Jul 23 03:21:39 1991
To: francis%zaphod@gargoyle.uchicago.edu
Cc: re.@sics.se@psi.com;
From: Craig Partridge <craig@sics.se>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 91 09:12:34 +0200
>> Internet, for all its 20-year history, is just growing up.
>
> Is this right? Is the net really that old?
Well, depends on how you count. The ARPAnet, which recently went away,
was for some time the hub of the Internet and it was 20 years old.
IP and TCP are somewhat younger.
Craig
