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Re: Happy Birthday, ARPANET!


From: Joly MacFie <joly () punkcast com>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 00:07:42 -0400

It seems the Internet Society is going with October 29.

http://www.internetsociety.org/international-internet-day

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:
<sheldon>
In fact, not quite.

The birthday of the internet proper is generally held to be January 1, 1983, the flag day when tcp/ip was first 
deployed.
</sheldon>

Andrew D Kirch <trelane () trelane net> wrote:
On 10/29/2013 10:51 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
The Paley Center for Media reminds us that on this day in 1969 at
2230 PST, the first link was turned up between UCLAs Sigma 7 and SRIs
940.

A photo of the laboratory logbook is included in the Wikipedia
article:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

Cheers,
- jra

crap, I'm supposed to be keeping a log book?  No one told me... err do
I
have to log _EVERYTHING_ I do online? :/

Happy Birthday, Internet!

Andrew

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