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Re: HOW OLD are you?

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From: Eric F. Richards
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:11
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"Brenda Ann" <brendad@shinbiro.com> wrote:

> 
> Not this time cowboy.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet
> 
> "
> The first TCP/IP-wide area network was made operational by January 1, 1983 
> when all hosts on the ARPANET were switched over from the older NCP 
> protocols to TCP/IP. In 1985, the United States' National Science Foundation 
> (NSF) commissioned the construction of a university 56 kilobit/second 
> network backbone using computers called "fuzzballs" by their inventor, David 
> Mills. The following year, NSF sponsored the development of a higher speed 
> 1.5 megabit/second backbone that become the NSFNet. A key decision to use 
> the DARPA TCP/IP protocols was made by Dennis Jennings, then in charge of 
> the Supercomputer program at NSF."
> 

That's TCP/IP.  Hate to side with these guys, but they're right this
time.  The World Wide Web and HTTP were invented in 1990 by Tim
Berners-Lee.

-- 
Eric F. Richards, efricha@dim.com
"It's the Din of iBiquity." -- Frank Dresser
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Subject: Re: HOW OLD are you?
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