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From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Internet!
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2018 10:34:51 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.02.1804071034340.9012@frieza.hoshinet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180407125041.7A89318C089@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

On Sat, 7 Apr 2018, Noel Chiappa wrote:

>    > 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.)

I thought the epoch of the Internet was January 1, 1983.

-uso.


  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-07 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-07 12:50 Noel Chiappa
2018-04-07 14:34 ` Steve Nickolas [this message]
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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