[governance] Happy Birthday to all of you on 25 years of the Internet

[Lee W McKnight]

Well since we're playing historian, I agree with Louis that launch of Sputnik/subsequent founding of ARPA is the most appropriate marker.


Since while the protocol itself was an iteration of the NCP and more which came before, much of the work on core concepts and the $$$$$$$ to build packet-switched network technologies - eventually introduced to wider public as the TCP/IP-routed Internet - stemmed straight from that.


In any case, as the Internet Architecture Board formed in 1979 (initially called the Internet Configuration Control Board), and the Internet Engineering Task Force formed in 1986, it is definitely over-simplifying history to wait for the launch of the web to talk of the Internet's birthday(s).


But yes of course the launch of the web made packet nets and specifically the Internet much more user-friendly, so really all these milestones should be recognized and celebrated.


Lee


PS: Personally, I would say the hiring of J.C.R. Licklider by ARPA in 1961 is the moment things seriously started; everything since flowed from that.

Licklider's memos on an 'Intergalactic Computer Network' from 1962 would be the specific marker I - intergalactically ; ) - suggest folks check out or refresh their recollections of.


http://internethalloffame.org/inductees/jcr-licklider









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From: governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org <governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org> on behalf of Mueller, Milton L <milton at gatech.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2016 10:05 AM
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; Louis Pouzin (well); Johan Helsingius
Subject: RE: [governance] Happy Birthday to all of you on 25 years of the Internet

It's 35 years. The RFC standardizing Internet Protocol was published in 1981 (October I think), and implementation, as Louis points out, started in the next ensuing years. I've always felt it was erroneous for people to equate the "birth" of the Internet with the birth of the ARPANET because ARPANET did not use the Internet protocols but NCP.

From: pouzin at gmail.com [mailto:pouzin at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Louis Pouzin (well)
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2016 2:19 PM
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org; Johan Helsingius <julf at julf.com>
Subject: Re: [governance] Happy Birthday to all of you on 25 years of the Internet

Quite right. The migration from NCP to TCP in 1983 is usually associated with Arpanet retirement and Internet birth.
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Louis
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2016-08-24 8:36 GMT+02:00 Johan Helsingius <julf at julf.com<mailto:julf at julf.com>>:
> Happy Birthday and Many Successes For The Future Of ICT s and It's
> Evolutions  For All !

Let me be the first spoilsport to point out that
the Internet is much older than 25 years, and is
much more than just www, but I applaud the spirit...

        Julf




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