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From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [COFF] Happy birthday, ARPAnet!
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 10:50:53 +1000 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2004071043250.36443@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200406231908.GB60994@eureka.lemis.com>

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


      reply	other threads:[~2020-04-07  0:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-06 21:58 dave
2020-04-06 23:19 ` grog
2020-04-07  0:50   ` dave [this message]

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