On this day in 1983, the ARPANET network officially switched to using the TCP/IP protocol, effectively creating the Internet.
“January 1, 1983 is considered the official birthday of the Internet. Prior to this, the various computer networks did not have a standard way to communicate with each other.”
https://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit07/internet07_02.phtml
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“The 1983 deadline’s passing was anticlimactic, [Vint Cerf, co-creator of the TCP/IP protocol] recalls, considering how important TCP/IP became as an enabler for the internet.”
https://www.theregister.com/2013/01/03/operational_internet_anniversary/
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15 years went by and two clowns Gore/Clinton spoke of the information superhighway as if they invented it and gave it to the world. Some local public libraries begun offering dial-up service at little cost, and suddenly the internet was outside military and academic walls. Most often it was a login shell to a unix system. Bitnet was on its final days and mosaic on html1 was magic.
Something like dillo today :)
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