{"id":498,"date":"2002-12-31T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2002-12-31T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2002\/12\/31\/12-31-02\/"},"modified":"2006-02-28T08:22:25","modified_gmt":"2006-02-28T16:22:25","slug":"happy-20th-birthday-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/31\/happy-20th-birthday-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 20th Birthday Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s the 20th birthday of the Internet!
\nHappy Birthday, Internet! Make a wish and blow out your candles.<\/p>\n

Oh, and happy birthday to the world as well! ;-)<\/p>\n

lee<\/p>\n

\n—— Forwarded Message
\nFrom: Bob Braden
\nDate: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 10:08:38 -0800 (PST)
\nTo: ietf ot ietf dat org
\nCc: internet-history@postel.org
\nSubject: The 20th anniversary of the Internet<\/p>\n

We ought not to let pass unnoticed the impending 20th anniversary of
\nthe Internet. The most logical date of origin of the Internet is
\nJanuary 1, 1983, when the ARPANET officially switched from the NCP
\nprotocol to TCP\/IP. Six months later, the ARPANET was split into the
\ntwo subnets ARPANET and MILNET, which were connected by Internet
\ngateways* (routers).<\/p>\n

The planning for the January 1983 switchover was fully documented in
\nJon Postel in RFC 801. The week-by-week progress of the transition was
\nreported in a series of 15 RFCs, in the range RFC 842 – RFC 876, by
\nUCLA student David Smallberg.<\/p>\n

There may still be a few remaining T shirts that read, “I Survived the
\nTCP\/IP Transition”. People sometimes question that any geeks would
\nhave been in machine rooms on January 1. Believe it!! Some geeks got
\nvery little sleep for a few days (and that was before the work “geek”
\nwas invented, I believe.)<\/p>\n

So, on New Year’s Eve, hoist one for the 20th anniversary of the
\nInternet.<\/p>\n

Bob Braden<\/p>\n

______________________________________________<\/p>\n

* Routers brought to you by Bob Hinden of BBN.<\/p>\n

** Prominent survivors included Dan Lynch of Interop fame.
\nAnd of course Vint Cerf was working the Levers of Power at
\nARPA.<\/p>\n

—— End of Forwarded Message
\nArchives at: http:\/\/www.interesting-people.org\/archives\/interesting-people\/
\n— end forwarded text<\/braden><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s the 20th birthday of the Internet! Happy Birthday, Internet! Make a wish and blow out your candles. Oh, and happy birthday to the world as well! ;-) lee —— Forwarded Message From: Bob Braden Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 10:08:38 -0800 (PST) To: ietf ot ietf dat org Cc: internet-history@postel.org Subject: The 20th anniversary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}