On 1 January 1983 the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (Arpanet) of the US Department of Defence - the forerunner of the internet - was switched to the TCP/IP protocol.
This enabled millions of computers to go online instead of the Network Control Protocol (NCP) which limited it to just 1,000 machines.
The TCP/IP protocol was designed by Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn.
On the mailing list of the Internet Engineering Task Force, internet pioneer Bob Braden wrote: "The most logical date of origin of the internet is 1 January 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 [Military Network] - which were connected by internet gateways.
"There may still be a few remaining T-shirts about that read: 'I Survived the TCP/IP Transition'."
Braden added that some people would be surprised to discover that there were actually a few souls wanting to work on the TCP/IP changeover on 1 January. But they did.
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Re: Happy 20th birthday to the internetby Anonymous on Jan 02, 2003 - 02:49 PM |
| Fascinating stuff. Thanks for posting it. No mention of Al Gore, huh? :-) |
Re: Happy 20th birthday to the internetby BStoner on Jan 02, 2003 - 09:20 PM (User information [4] | Send a message [5] |
| that's funny! |
Re: Happy 20th birthday to the internetby slmcd on Sep 26, 2003 - 08:05 PM (User information [7] | Send a message [8] http://home.twmi.rr.com/smcdonnell/ [9]) |
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DETROIT-Each year, the American Polish Engineering Association, an affiliate of the Engineering Society of Detroit, honors one of their own and one outstanding Polish American engineer, scientist or technician who has made outstanding contributions to the field of engineering. In an effort to honor these people further and to get the word out about the contributions of Polish engineers and scientists, the APEA publishes a booklet about these individuals. They are distributed at the association's annual banquet, as well as to schools, libraries, and other centers. This year, the APEA honored Paul Baran, the inventor of Packet Switching and internet pioneer. (Packet Switching is the technology that allows information to travel over the internet). See....it wasn't Al Gore who invented the internet. It was a Pole. |