From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] OT: Grace Hopper, Unix epoch, ARPAnet converted to TCP/IP
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2018 09:51:57 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1801010927100.99776@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
Some interesting historical stuff today...
We lost Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper USN (Retd) in 1992; there's not much
more than can be said about her, but I will mention that she received
(posthumously) the Presidential Medal of Honor in 2016.
As every Unix geek knows, today is the anniversary of The Epoch[tm] back
in 1970, and at least one nosey web site thinks that that is my birthdate
too...
And according to my notes, the ARPAnet got converted from NCP to TCP/IP in
1983; do any greybeards here have a more precise date?
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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2017-12-31 22:51 Dave Horsfall [this message]
2017-12-31 23:10 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-31 23:22 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-31 23:47 ` Kurt H Maier
2018-01-01 0:15 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-01-01 0:59 ` Kurt H Maier
2018-01-01 12:59 Noel Chiappa
2018-01-02 0:57 ` Ron Natalie
2018-01-02 16:19 ` Clem Cole
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