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From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Internet!
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 19:10:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfiPzwt4Yi12ohGkYzqsOqqa874buDDU0fx1+1NEoJY3ooVwg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1804070655221.27730@aneurin.horsfall.org>

On 06/04/2018, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> The Internet (spelled with a capital "I", please, as it is a proper noun)
> was born on this day in 1969, when RFC-1 got published; it described the
> IMP and ARPAnet.

This prompted me to look through the list (at
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-index.html).  Some very interesting
titles there.

> As I said at a club lecture once, there are many internets, but only one
> Internet.

Where was this codified?  (I recall reading RFCs that referred to "an
internet" but cannot remember where.)

N.


  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-06 23:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-06 20:56 Dave Horsfall
2018-04-06 23:10 ` Nemo [this message]
2018-04-06 23:19   ` Dave Horsfall
2018-04-06 23:56   ` Kurt H Maier
  -- 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 12:50 Noel Chiappa
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
2018-04-07  4:54 Rudi Blom
2018-04-07 15:21 ` Clem Cole
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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