From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 09:34:03 +1000 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Internet! In-Reply-To: <20180407125041.7A89318C089@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> References: <20180407125041.7A89318C089@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: On Sat, 7 Apr 2018, Noel Chiappa wrote: > 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'm happy to be corrected if we can reach a consensus; history is written by the victors, after all. > 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... I saw the reference on one of those history sites, I think. And I already have the date of the first packet. Again, updates to my list are always welcome; I'm not pronouncing them ex-cathedra or anything... > I myself prefer the formulation 'there are many white houses, but only > one White House'! :-) Yeah, well... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."