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From: Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@realmeasures.dyndns.org> Date: Sat Dec 14, 2002 4:03:20 PM US/Eastern To: C-FIT_Community@realmeasures.dyndns.org, C-FIT_Release_Community@realmeasures.dyndns.org, fairuse-discuss@nyfairuse.org, DMCA_Discuss@lists.microshaft.org, DMCA-Activists@gnu.org Cc: dpreed@reed.com Subject: [C-Fit_Community] 20th Anniversary of the Internet Reply-To: C-FIT_Community@realmeasures.dyndns.org

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-------- Original Message -------- Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 14:02:54 -0500 From: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net> To: ip <ip@v2.listbox.com>

I still have the button and still have the memories of tht week djf

------ Forwarded Message From: Bob Braden <braden@ISI.EDU> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 10:08:38 -0800 (PST) To: ietf@ietf.org Cc: internet-history@postel.org Subject: The 20th anniversary of the Internet

We ought not to let pass unnoticed the impending 20th anniversary of the Internet. The most logical date of origin of the Internet is January 1, 1983, when the ARPANET officially switched from the NCP protocol to TCP/IP. Six months later, the ARPANET was split into the two subnets ARPANET and MILNET, which were connected by Internet gateways* (routers).

The planning for the January 1983 switchover was fully documented in Jon Postel in RFC 801. The week-by-week progress of the transition was reported in a series of 15 RFCs, in the range RFC 842 - RFC 876, by UCLA student David Smallberg.

There may still be a few remaining T shirts that read, "I Survived the TCP/IP Transition". People sometimes question that any geeks would have been in machine rooms on January 1. Believe it!! Some geeks got very little sleep for a few days (and that was before the work "geek" was invented, I believe.)

So, on New Year's Eve, hoist one for the 20th anniversary of the Internet.

Bob Braden

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* Routers brought to you by Bob Hinden of BBN.

** Prominent survivors included Dan Lynch of Interop fame. And of course Vint Cerf was working the Levers of Power at ARPA.

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