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

[Chaitanya Dhareshwar]

Lee that's amazing detail but a little overkill isn't it :)

If the day / month overlaps we have ourselves a "birthday" to celebrate :)

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On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 8:11 PM, Lee W McKnight <lmcknigh at syr.edu> wrote:

> 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).
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>
> 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
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>
> 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.
>
>
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> *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.
>   .
>
> Louis
> - - -
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> 2016-08-24 8:36 GMT+02:00 Johan Helsingius <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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