* [COFF] Happy birthday, ARPAnet! @ 2020-04-06 21:58 dave 2020-04-06 23:19 ` grog 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: dave @ 2020-04-06 21:58 UTC (permalink / raw) RFC 1 "Host Software" was published on this day in 1969 by Steve Crocker; it described the IMP (the forerunner of today's routers). -- Dave ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* [COFF] Happy birthday, ARPAnet! 2020-04-06 21:58 [COFF] Happy birthday, ARPAnet! dave @ 2020-04-06 23:19 ` grog 2020-04-07 0:50 ` dave 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: grog @ 2020-04-06 23:19 UTC (permalink / raw) On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 at 7:58:00 +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote: > RFC 1 "Host Software" was published on this day in 1969 by Steve Crocker; > it described the IMP (the forerunner of today's routers). And I always put it as 30 October 1969, the day the first packets were sent. Greg -- Sent from my desktop computer. Finger grog at lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft mail program reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 163 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/coff/attachments/20200407/f5f50a84/attachment.sig> ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* [COFF] Happy birthday, ARPAnet! 2020-04-06 23:19 ` grog @ 2020-04-07 0:50 ` dave 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: dave @ 2020-04-07 0:50 UTC (permalink / raw) On Tue, 7 Apr 2020, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > And I always put it as 30 October 1969, the day the first packets were > sent. https://www.onthisday.com/day/april/7 ``1969 The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1'' I'm not going to "debate" this any further; there is a provision to correct them if you feel motivated enough. -- Dave ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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