From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Internet!
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2018 08:50:41 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180407125041.7A89318C089@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)
> From: Dave Horsfall
> The Internet ... was born on this day in 1969, when RFC-1 got published
I have this vague memory that the Internet-History list decided that the
appropriate day was actually the day the format of the v4 headers was set,
i.e. 16 June, 1978. (See IEN-68, pg. 12, top.)
Picking the date of RFC-1 seems a little odd. Why not the day the first packet
was send over a deployed IMP, or the day the RFP was sent out, or the contract
let? And the ARPANet was just one predecessor; one might equally have picked a
CYCLADES date...
> (spelled with a capital "I", please, as it is a proper noun) ... As I
> said at a club lecture once, there are many internets, but only one
> Internet.
I myself prefer the formulation 'there are many white houses, but only one
White House'! :-)
Noel
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-07 12:50 Noel Chiappa [this message]
2018-04-07 14:34 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-04-07 14:44 ` Clem Cole
2018-04-08 23:34 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-04-09 0:06 ` Clem Cole
2018-04-09 1:16 ` Kurt H Maier
2018-04-08 23:34 ` Dave Horsfall
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-04-09 15:37 Noel Chiappa
2018-04-10 18:32 ` Clem Cole
2018-04-10 19:11 ` Clem Cole
2018-04-09 14:57 Noel Chiappa
2018-04-09 14:52 Noel Chiappa
2018-04-09 15:01 ` Erik E. Fair
2018-04-07 4:54 Rudi Blom
2018-04-07 15:21 ` Clem Cole
2018-04-06 20:56 Dave Horsfall
2018-04-06 23:10 ` Nemo
2018-04-06 23:19 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-04-06 23:56 ` Kurt H Maier
2017-04-07 4:48 Dave Horsfall
2017-04-07 4:58 ` Warren Toomey
2017-04-07 5:13 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-04-07 6:57 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-04-08 5:13 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-04-09 0:09 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-04-09 2:42 ` Jason Stevens
2017-04-10 5:54 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-04-07 13:55 ` Nemo
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